I feel like i am.
Who else is unemployed due to illness?
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same here…
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looking forward to start a business,
self employment
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I don’t want anyone to feel worthless about me trying to get a job,
I never thought I was worthless, I mean there are reasons I haven’t had a job for years,
there are always good reasons and I think sz is a very good reason
I mean if you think you can do something then you should try it but if not then that’s OK,
I think we find it really hard, probably 10X harder than anyone else to get work and keep it, I don’t even know if I’ll be able to work.
Keeping fingers crossed though, there is
Always hope, take care.
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Your post is one of the best posts ever.
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You are not worthless, were not all cut out to live the social norm, mental illness is a tough one, yes I work, but I work for myself in a field no one gives a s___ if I show up or not and I can shut down when ever I can’t handle it, which happens.
If I did have a regular job I would have been fired over and over again, my point being, be happy with yourself, and embrace it. Just do the best you can, which is hard enough with sz.
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No of course you’re not worthless for not having a job. No more than a normie who is unemployed is.
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awesome post truly spoken
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This is so nice it makes me want to cry out of relief. Thanks man.
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awesomeness is contagious I guess
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You may feel like that but you are not worthless. Lots of people who have various serious illnesses can’t work. It’s not their fault. You wouldn’t expect someone in a wheel chair to get a job digging ditches or stocking shelves, so don’t beat yourself up over your limitations. Even without a job, you are a still a human being and you deserve respect. Maybe you will find your calling at a volunteer job or taking online classes or walking dogs or helping children.
There are a whole lot of things to do on this planet besides work that are worthwhile and self-esteem building.Volunteer to serve soup at your local soup kitchen.
Besides, you don’t know what the future will bring, just do what my parents told me when I first got sick at age 19.
Just concentrate on geeing better for right now and then maybe get a job in the future. I got diagnosed at age 19. I didn’t work for three years after that and I was seriously, seriously, ill. During that time I was locked up for 8 months in a locked psychiatric hospital with a hundred other people who were out of their minds. It was actually quite scary. But when I was 23 and living in a group home I got a job and I stayed there for four years.
Now I’m 55 and I’m looking back on being employed for most of the last 33 years.I had a lot of help along the way but it was me and me alone who was actually there unloading trucks, patrolling parks in my park ranger job, and working as a janitor.
Maybe there are vocational [programs in your area like there are in mine that you go to that slowly prepare you for work with other disabled people. There are also employment agencies whose clients are strictly disabled people who get jobs for clients where the employer hires mainly disabled people so you can do your work without the burden of having the stress of trying to hide your illness. Anyway, you’re young, you have time. I don’t mean this in a rude insulting way but just don’t do anything stupid and try to do things that help yourself. You can’t recover overnight, but be smart about your life. It’s your life just like anyone else who doesn’t have this terrible disease.
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You make many good points. Thank you for your compassion. Compassion is a dying virtue, I am inclined to presume. This is very helpful. Thank you for sharing your story.
I suppose the stigma surrounding mental illness reaches me from time to time, and I feel like my illness isn’t a “real” illness and I’m just a lazy twat like the voices tell me.
It’s hard to accept that I’m not like everyone else who can just go out and get a job and build relationships and have a life.
It’s hard to accept that I am still a human person worthy of decency and respect when I cannot do those things.
It’s a conundrum, but I sincerely thank you for your input. 
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Depends on what is defined as “worth”. I don’t honestly think that a majority of jobs are worthy by any stretch of the imagination. They’re just accepted to be worthwhile because they happen to make money. I consider anything that gives life color to be worthy and not everyone in the world is going to be rich doing that.
“Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.” - Vincent Van Gogh
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wanted ticket to work through SSA,
full time placement off of disability payment,
they said I wasn’t eligible.
I did all the interviews and paperwork.
What a waste of time. thanks for nothing.
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A person should strive to reach their full potential. For some that means working, others, not working. If you’re putting your best foot forward each day then you’ve nothing to be ashamed of, no matter what your status is.
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what if u won the lotto
Every dollar bill from gambling is somebody else’s broken dream. That’s a whackload of bad karma I don’t need. I’d rather donate it to a charity and keep that cloud of despair away from me.
people work for money I gamble for money
Don’t be so hard on yourself sounds like you would be willing to work if you were able. You are young and have lots of time to recover and have a career.
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