today was my therapy appointment. I told him about the discussion we had about whether we work or not? I don’t know why but I became very upset, I told him I wasn’t ready to go back to work. He told me “I don’t think you are ever going to be able to go back, but you never know, big changes, and I mean big changes could happen.” After a while I quit shaking and crying. For me the thought of going back is that overwhelming. I had such a terrible time trying to work. I wonder if I am alone.
Our minds are ill. It is no wonder work is difficult if not impossible. One can’t work without a mind.
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You are not alone! I understand you had a terrible time in work! I have hated work since I was in school (and had the illness)! I hated school, too, and I have horrible memories from there. People once made fun of me in the whole class with the teacher herself too, I was missing from there and when I found out, I had been crying all day for two days!! If you have experienced such “episodes” in work, you shouldn’t go. Health is above all. And I agree with chordy.
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I did have “episodes” at work. My boss hated me. I had one worker throw a stapler at me. No one talked to me. I had to get out of there bad. I was making mistakes no matter how hard I tried to be perfect. The more pressure they put on me the more mistakes I made.
At one point I crawled into the fetal position and began rocking and moaning to myself. The next day I was gone on medical no questions asked.
I think that you should never go back to this work then. If you feel better, you can start a new job, but only if you want to. No pressure, it’s not good for us!!
sorry @saphire2014 that sounds terrible what you went through
i know what its like to have a hard time with it in the work place,
the thing that i have came to term with for me personally is that maybe some day and i say maybe,
i might be able to work,
it seems that if i can do some voluntary work and college and church then i might be able to do a part time job at some point but it would have to depend on what it was as i get very stressed out and anxious,
idk about your circumstances but i’d say be careful and take it slow, i mean even on the best med i am still struggling with that, i have been slowly building up skills for the last 5 years and i think it might be another 5 before i could get some sort of ob maybe longer
@Resilient1 I know what you mean, I walked away from a 50,000.00 a year job. Now it stresses me out to volunteer for the church festival.
You got that right.
Most jobs have pressure.
I was just lucky enough to find no pressure career and employer that likes what I have spent my whole life doing.
This was after I had been ‘retired’ by the government and I later went back to work.
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I 've heard so and I 've been feeling it myself that pressure doesn’t help. It’s good to find a career with no pressure, I wish I could, too.
i was told several times that i may never work again, My current tdoc seems to think there are aren’t too many jobs out there for me, especially living in such a small town. The only jobs out there in such a small town is fast food, retail and factory jobs. My tdoc says a i need a job that doesn’t pressure me.
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just know that you are supported here in whatever you decide to do.