Most of my jobs i lost due yo psychosis and never returned, I got employed at a cafe bar and had a long 2 montha hospitalization and returned to the same job. The problem is i feel really akward about it because what kind of delusions and secrets of my life I told them. What about you?
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I kept jobs for over 2-3 years before my sz. I haven’t been able to keep a real job for more than a month after my sz diagnosis 9 years ago.
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I worked for the same company for 11 years almost 12. I was hospitalized several times after year 10. I finally got to where I couldn’t work.
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Yes, the casino. I had several absences and hospitalizations and returned to work. Everyone was loving and supportive. I was really lucky. I was sad to have to give up that job.
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Why you left???
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I couldn’t handle the stress of being upbeat and happy and dealing with my customers anymore. I was too sick to go to work. There was a 2 year period of time where I barely got out of bed. I was really sick.
Every day. I looked fine but I was crazy as hell.
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There’s nothing to worry about. If they hold that against you there’s no “doing right” in their eyes. Just be nice.
Yeah. I worked at a place for one and a half year, then had my first psychosis and returned afterwards and worked for another 10 months or so before I got let go because of cutbacks. Looking back I think it must have been a bit weird for my coworkers when I came back heavily sedated. I think I was on 10mg zyprexa at the time. They knew something had happened to me, but nobody asked about it. It was tough being there pretending like it was business as usual.
yep i worked when i was in psychosis a bunch of times. I dont even know how I pulled it off
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First I nearly got blown up and then I went nuts while I was recovering from it. Can’t go back to the cooking jobs I had because of the physical injuries. I’ve kept in touch with people I worked with and we get along fine, I still have their respect because I was good at what I did and they know I’ve still got my chops in a kitchen. The SZ doesn’t play into things for me here.
I went back to one job but ultimately lost it from hospitalized
Before; after; during. Psychoisis, marijuana, fresh out of the hospital, crack, medicated to the gills; I showed up.
I never showed up drunk though; I have my standards.
I didn’t have a job when I was psychotic. After my recovery, I got a job as a translator.
Yeah. I went crazy in a workplace of like 300 people. It was too weird and I couldn’t handle it. I was still getting positives and I slid into psychosis there. I did some strange things and couldn’t reconcile them.
I really should have avoided going back but didn’t realize my options back then. It was a mistake for me to go back too soon. It really was.
I did this for 6 years.
Once I literally went back to work the day after I got out of the hospital.
My relapse count at my old job was about 6 I think?
Only a couple of people knew why, but I am sure some people could have guessed.
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