I feel really dumb for posting, but I have no idea who to turn to. My anxiety has been crazy for the past two weeks to the point of getting panic attacks whenever I opened my inbox. As a result, I have an inbox full of emails from probably a lot of angry clients wondering where the f\*\*\* I've been. It's super unprofessional of me that I let it come to this point and I'm positive that if I don't handle things soon, I'll most likely get fired (and rightfully so - I'm not doing my job).

I know it's a longshot, but is there a good professional excuse that I can use for my unresponsiveness? I wish I could just come clean and say I was not in a good mental place, but that's just not a good look professionally and it honestly doesn't even matter. I just want to get back on track now that I'm feeling a lot better, but I'm at a loss of what to say.

I guess I could say I had a medical emergency that I didn't communicate to my team so that someone else would take over for me, but I don't know. I'm truly at a loss and don't know what to do with myself.