Do you think it is wise to go back into work full time?

There is no part-time work available at the moment for me, so I was considering working full time. It is just a bit of a risk for me, because if I went out of work, I could potentially get denied benefits, could lose tens of thousands in my mortgage and basically everything I own. But I can’t live off what I am on now as it is not enough.

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Absolutely not! I mean can’t you work with social security. Do some kind of tutoring or part-time work or do chores or get an allowance? There’s always something to do.

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No, I cant rely on my parents, they barely have any money as it is after moving into their new house. It is either wait for part-time work which could be a long time if even possible at all, or go into full time and potentially get denied benefits if I ever reapply.

No it is not risk
Best luck

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I make more money working part time and staying on SSDI,

it makes no sense to work full time.

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Yeah, It would be about the same for now I lost PIP, so I am not too bothered.

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That’s a tricky one. Maybe talk it over with your pdoc or caseworker and see what they recommend. Full time work can be very rewarding and help with maintaining a healthy routine for some people. It can over stress and burn out others.

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@anon98459728 I work 2 jobs one part time in a shop 3 days and the rest of the week flexible hours on my Ebay Uk.Agree I came of benefits because they were a joke and not enough to live off longterm,where I live.My advice only work full time if you feel well enough to do it tbh

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Do you have the capacity to work full time? I don’t, I can’t work full time, my positive symptoms and lack of sleep make it impossible to perform professionally mon-fri. 38 hrs/week of maintaining workplace relationships & stress are too much for me. I can only perform in short shifts, so I work 2 jobs with short shifts (2-5 hours).

Have you worked full time before, was you mental health ok?

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The big question is how are you with stress? It used to easily overwhelm me in the first several years of my illness and every time I failed at something it made me suicidal.

That can be a lot to deal with.

I worked in the beginning of my illness and I couldn’t keep a job for longer than a few months.

Now I work full time again but I can handle moderate amounts of stress again. I am used to working high stress jobs. Before I got sick I was a stress monster but I think it was all the stress that got me sick in the first place. If I couldn’t handle stress again I wouldn’t have risked it.

It took me 11 years to get comfortable with stress again.

Good luck. :four_leaf_clover:

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A lot of places do flexible working now.

I work an extra hour a day and only work four days.

I pretty much get a full time salary and have a three day weekend.

Diazepam is helping me do this at the moment.

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I relate with everything @TomCat said, but I haven’t been employed full time nearly as long as he has. I’m currently on 7 months of being employed full time consecutively.

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Jumping right into full-time work seems a bit much. It might be better to start off smaller and work you’re way up. This is probably better advice for someone who has a cushion of time to explore more options.

When I got out of the hospital in 1983 and moved into a group home, I became employed again through a series of small steps. I started small and slowly took on more responsibility and challenges. 9 months later I got a regular job and ended up staying there four years, despite being occasionally psychotic, heavily sedated, stressed, and for the last year I was addicted to crack.

It wasn’t always full time, it was usually part-time but for long periods they had me work full time. I’ve been employed almost steadily since.

Some jobs required me to work full time, but not always. I have usually risen to the occasion on my jobs. I do what is asked.

It would be ideal If you had the luxury and time to start part-time and slowly build up your confidence and stamina to work full time.

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I have never worked full time before, I think I could do it though. I am just a bit worried about finding work in the future because I always find it hard to find work.

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I do get stressed a lot, but I think i could go full time if I wanted to.

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I have been working full-time for 3 months now at a warehouse. The job is very labor intensive, requires some tetris like problem solving and some minor short term memory usage. No in depth calculations, complex brain functions or critical thinking involved.

Working is great as I can almost pass as a normal person with friends and co-workers. Getting paid from a job is way more than what disability benefits could provide me with.

My goal now is to work full-time at the 6 month mark.

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I would be very careful about losing my benefits if I was you. You can get fired from a job through no fault of your own. Business could slow down. You might be rude to the boss’s cousin who you didn’t know was related to your boss. (That happened to me once.) The business could move to Mexico. Get with your caseworker and find out how all that works.

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What kind of work are you going to do? Maybe you can find something low stress. Usually finding part time is easier than full time because companies don’t want to pay benefits but that may be only in the US.

You guys already get free healthcare I think. In the US that can be very expensive.

I work for the government. I went to work full time March 17th so I have only been at it 7 months too @Dreamer. But I am thinking about taking a part time job on top of that which may be too much for me to handle but I want to do it. It’s good money but it’s skilled labor which is high stress and you have to really be careful and on top of your game.

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Driving work. I enjoy driving around and listening to the radio so it is no stress at all. Finding part time work is relatively easy, but finding it under 16 hours is quite hard. There are only cleaning jobs going at the moment and I want to find driving work so I can have it as a sort of profession and find it easy to get work in the future.

That doesn’t sound too bad. I have always been capable of driving. I quit one job after 6 weeks and drove 7 hours straight back home suicidal and psychotic.

I don’t think I could get a commercial drivers license though. I thought of doing hot shot a couple of years ago but I didn’t think I could pass a DOT physical. Too many meds

Do you just need a regular license or a commercial? I think @shutterbug used to drive commercially.

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