Please post her why you can’t work. Also let us know if you’re on disability or not.
I can’t work because of constant panic attacks and other frequent physical health issues. Also being terrified of everyone around me doesn’t help. And being too depressed to get out of bed made me miss a lot of work. And becoming suicidal over doing anything wrong. So my last job actually forced me to go get assistance and then fired me cause I wasn’t functional enough.
And I’m still waiting to find out if I qualify for disability. I should find out soon hopefully though.
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On disability, do not work because work is too demanding.
I’m not functioning as a normal person and everybody expects me to, so it puts a lot of stress on me and that considerably damages my QoL 
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I will apply for disability soon. I don’t work but I help my father in his job. I can’t work cos I am lazy, don’t have interest or motive to do things, I am slow because of the meds etc.
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I can’t do fast food jobs because I’m just not fast enough. I get fired from those jobs pretty quickly because I am just too slow. Also, back trouble prevents me from doing that kind of work. I clean the restrooms at our clubhouse for ten dollars a week. Some days I’m just about reaching the limits of my pain tolerance when I do that job. It takes about forty minutes a day. Some days it isn’t too bad, but some days it is. If my only option was to do that kind of work all day or live on the street, I would have no choice but to live on the street and eat out of trash cans. It’s surprising that I can do some things you wouldn’t think a person with a bad back could do. The other day I carried a bag of wet clothes that probably weighed over a hundred pounds up a small hill to a trash can. It’s not that kind of work that hurts my back. It’s more like standing still, and reaching out with my hands. That causes me a lot of pain. I would be happy to dig ditches, but I can’t because of my back, and also the med’s mess up my body’s tolerance for the weather. Antipsychotic medication makes me more susceptible to hypothermia in winter and hyperthermia in summer. I can’t work in factories for the same reasons, because of the heat in summer. Sometimes I feel guilty for not working, but I have seen guys who are far more capable than me on ssdi. I type 20 words per minute on the typewriter, and those guys are doing like 60 - 70 wpm. There are also women who do quite a bit of work in the kitchen where I live.
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I can’t work due to all the symptoms of schizophrenia I have. I am on disability pension. I have lack of motivation, poor social ability, lack of speech, maybe poor cognition.
Because I’ve faced tremendous abuse in every workplace scenario I’ve ever been in. Maybe bad luck but id rather be on SSDI than people take small bites out of my PTSD every day. Plus the negative symptoms make it difficult.
I’m not sure because I’ve never worked but based on the reasons that led me to leave school I would say because I’m slow, I can’t concentrate, I experience a big discomfort in social situations, low stress tollerance and not much energy.
Youre not lazy. Its the illness. If you werent sick, you would work.
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I can’t work because of anxiety, lack of confidence, breakthrough symptoms, low self esteem
Also another thing that annoys me is sometimes when I talk I get a spasm resulting in my voice shaking so for if I say the word "because’ my voice will jerk and go up it’s hard to explain but I hate it it makes me sound mad
I don’t like making excuses. I have severe social and physical challenges to most entry level positions that spring from paranoia about the people around me and my hypothyroid. But I’ll still try working from time to time because the clock is ticking. I’m concerned about my survival which is a good thing I suppose even if it’s a source of anxiety.
Sooner or later it’ll be a choice between working or having my throat slit under a bridge because they’re going to roll back disability benefits in the US or I’ll end up homeless. At least passing for functional is my goal at the moment although I’ll admit I’m not doing the best job of it.
that’s true. but I look lazy to others who don’t know…
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