Anyone else on here finding it hard to hold down a full time job with schizophrenia? The DID is usually the hardest for me during work but I unload trailers for a living and I’m alone in a truck and my “situation” starts to get very loud, confusing, and irritating as to the point I can’t concentrate on anything and usually wind up getting in trouble.
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Do you have DID?
What is DID? 1515
dissociative identity disorder
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I do. He has a big control over my life. Most of my friends and family have left after seeing him come out.
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I am able to hold down my current full time job for the past 2 and a half months even with schizophrenia medicated.
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I’m on benefits and I have a very part time business, which allows me to survive all that I have gone through … mostly intact.
I work full time but find it hard. what is hard is not the actual job but interacting and working with people while having deadlines.
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I been working full time for 2 weeks but is kind of hard because they ask me sometimes to stay over time and if I work overtime, I will not have time to relax. Also, sometimes they change my schedule from afternoon to morning and that’s very difficult for me because the medication makes me sleep a lot. Also, I feel like I’m getting psychotic from working full time. I currently take Risperidone but now it seems like it is not working well on me. I’m thinking of telling the manager if they can give me less hours, but I don’t want to tell them that I have schizophrenia. I think they will see me different if I tell them my condition. Also, now I have trouble speaking well. I really want to work less but I’m afraid of telling them.
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I’m looking for a part-time job. I have an interview on Jan 4th. My psychiatrist wrote a report to the employment agency that I’m only allowed to work part-time at most. But I’m motivated to work and that is key. For years I didn’t have it.
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Years ago I was working 35 hrs a week approximately but couldn’t continue for other reasons aside from the illness. For about 2.5 to 3 yrs.
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My 1st employment, I could handle 35 hours a week for 8 months.
My 2nd employment, I could handle 40 hours a week for 3-4 months and still continuing.
At first, but the longer I did it the better I got at it. Been continuously employed full-time for a couple of decades now.
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I work fulltime. Just noticed i made 70k this year. Ive only been working 2.5 years and im doing pretty good so far. Hopefully the meds keep working and i dont have heart failure.
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I did this about a week ago and it worked.
All I said was I have a mental health condition I do not wish to disclose to anyone but HR
I work 40 hrs/wk. I had been working 45 hrs/wk, but my hours recently got cut down, much to my chagrin. It’s a little easier working just eight hours a day, instead of nine, though.
Other than the year I spent in med school I’ve worked pretty much continuously since I was 16 (I’m 42 now). Hell, when I came home from med school, when I was 23, just a couple months after my first psychotic break, my dad immediately told me I had to get a job if I was going to live with him. That was shitty, zero compassion, he hated that I was on psych meds, but yeah took a job as a security guard, which was awful for me.
Anyway, I’m just saying with enough diligence and a strong enough will it’s possible to do it.
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