Do you take anti-psychotics and have a job?
- Yes
- No
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If I didn’t take them I wouldn’t be able to work.
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Sort of have a job…or had. Was a funded full time student and researcher, now brushing up on outdated and rusty material for grad school.
My job was to be a perfect student…it is on less hours but I consider studying and doing research all day a challenging occupation. I mean I could get a job but I am in school to become a doctor. I spend more time doing school-related stuff than a regular job.
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Same here, I’d be a mess in the corner without meds.
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So proud of you for being diligent.
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One time I was on Haldol, and I tried to work in this factory through a temp agency. There was a strike going on at the factory, and I crossed the picket lines, together with a number of other people. They were running the assembly line really fast, and they had a lot of work stations where you had to do awkward, strenuous work. I couldn’t keep up. I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t do the work there. Most of the guys who worked through the temp agency only stayed there one day too. I don’t know why they were running people into the ground at that factory. Could be the owner was looking for the point where he could say, “See, our lazy workforce refuses to do the hard work at my factory, so I have to hire illegal immigrant labor.”
i have voluntary work on the phones for 2 hrs on a Monday morning, its challenging but it would not be possible without meds.
Hi!
I’m not working in this moment, but I worked between 2012 to 2013, and I was taking meds also, I was taking Risperidone and Sulpiride.
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I function quite well at work
I can work unmedicated, but not as well. My judgement is also suspect in some areas when my insight diminishes.
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On meds but working currently no. But work when I’m able and have been stable while in therapy to hold down a job. Due to a total mess of constant people I know passing on it has set me back a great deal as two where suicides. Which had led me to the internets support sites. Has been a total mess dealing with a completed grief setting me back a great deal. However starting to look at getting back into work as we speak. Hopefully with support I can really start growing to find what I’m really capable of which is all very exciting and very scary.