Why don’t you work. So many of you claim benefits and don’t work and are pro meds. Whats your reason for not working?
I myself don’t work and have paranoid schizophrenia. I’m thinking about working in the future. My reason for not working is that my anti-psychotic causes me severe depression.
My negatives are pretty pronounced and as stable as I think I am, I’m definitely not stable enough to handle the stress of a job. My doctor won’t release me to work.
I don’t work right now because I’m a stay at home mom, but I want to go back to work when the kids are older. I had a full time job in a small company before I got married and liked it.
Stress. I get stressed I get paranoid and lose function. I get benefits but I do volunteer work. It’s way less stressful and gets me out of the house and doing something productive.
Schizophrenia is serious business and some people can work some can’t. It’s not a bad thing if you can’t work. I lived a realized life and can’t complain.
I have strong negatives and also become very paranoid of people in the workplace. I obsess over what they are thinking of me. I also can’t remember things.
I don’t work because I get paranoid in an office setting and always end up getting fired.
My husband makes enough money to compensate so I don’t have to go on disability.
However, I do write and sometimes get paid for it.
But right now I’m so busy helping to take care of my ill mother in law that I don’t have time for that.
i have tried working at about 10 or 12 jobs during the course of growing up and into the person i am now. however i think that the companies that employ people to work do not care about their employees they only care about the profits and money and we are just a number to them so that if we are not sufficient enough they will just replace me. there was one time i got a job and was on the probationary trial period for 3 months they fired me at 89 days so i couldnt get the benefits of unemployment or whatever from not being there the full 90 days. other times i can think of i was working in a warehouse for about a month or two and i was the only person who would step up and volunteer to do the more difficult work among the people who were also hired during same time. well i had a bad day one day and slept through all day and forgot to call in because i was sleeping and they fired me even though i was the one doing the best work. so they just replaced me like a roll of toilet paper on a holder…
when i was younger i had a very hard time getting to work everyday in the morning at 8am because i was on zyprexa and it made me very groggy in the morning so one day when the boss hired a person who had more educational background he just said he would let me know if they needed anything and would call which he never did. most of the time when i get a job i find out i am being screwed over by the standard workforce. for instance i worked about 2 or 3 months as a oilfield pipe fitter cleaning and testing oil field drill pipe and later on i discovered that the people who do the same thing for the union get paid 3x more than we were as contractors… the work was hardcore too we would work 9 day weeks getting 2 hours of sleep and working 15 hour days. that didnt seem to cause a episode but it was very demanding luckily it was with my friends who got me the job to keep the morale high.
there was one job that i worked at that people were making up stuff about me and talking crap about me behind my back sometimes i would be around it but when i confronted them about it they lied and said otherwise. a lot of jobs i have had people talk crap like its normal and good. but it just pisses me off. i suppose this is the case for a lot of minimum wage jobs. i make more off supplements than i ever did working as a slave for a couple peas from someone elses soup.
Depression stress overwhelming feeling
Attention span agitation
Motivation social anxiety
I am looking to find something part time though.
However it’s not easy.
Went to a learning disability residential home today and it was extremely difficult to absorb the environment even just if I’m a part timer
Damn. That sounds rough.
The men who follow me and record my movements and activities and computer and phone usage will harass me at my work like they’ve done before. I don’t want them to take me away for questioning. They will if I’m out and about, eventually it will happen. And yes, I take my meds and my pdoc knows all about it. Meds haven’t stopped the men.
Because I’ve never had the help and support to make working viable . Although meds are important it requires more than that for some of us . The last psych report mentioning work which was a decade ago indicated at best I was suitable for supported work in a sheltered environment.
I can’t work for many reasons. My sza acts up when I am under any stress and in my opinion, all jobs nowadays are very stressful. Also, I get frequent, chronic, and severe migraines. There is no way I can work a steady job as long as I continue to suffer from those. In addition, I have a very bad back and I can’t do any physical work because of my back so that limits me greatly. Also, I have not worked a fulltime, paying job in over 26 years, so, I have no recent work history and no one will hire me without a recent work history. Also, I am now 59 years old and age discrimination is rampant.
I’m not able to YET. I have before, full-time, for years and I hope to go back. My psychiatrist thinks he can get me back to work. For now, I have trouble with concentration, following directions, reading, and remembering what to do.
I can’t get a job because here in Denmark, you have to have a driver’s license, and education, or previous job experience in order to get a job.
I don’t have either.
Plus, I can’t tolerate a full 37 hour work week due to low stress threshold.
I have a lot of paranoia around people. I hardly go out in public anymore. I also tend to get depressed for months at a time and that doesn’t help.
I have severe social anxiety. And I can’t focus right now. I feel too open and like my brain is naked super paranoid bc nobody can read my mind 
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I can do a day here, or a day there, but full time, even part time, I cannot.
Dealing with daily voices is a constant distraction, decreasing my focus.
I become paranoid and get delusions about coworkers and bosses.
Most days I can’t handle basic care needs like showering and brushing my teeth.
I can’t imagine working, I’m struggling with basic living
I can’t hold onto a job hate it
Not working because I had the day off and was running kidlet to medical appointments. Nose back to the grind stone tomorrow morning.
MY life is nothing but work, as much as I would like to retire, I guess work give me a purpose