Who here has depression & / social anxiety which has affected work ?!
Question: Who here has depression & / social anxiety which has affected work !?
I would like to know some detail if you dont mind!. I have both - usually not at the same time but they have caused me slow progress in work etc!. Right now I just work night -shifts because of it - I try to gear my jobs to accomodate it because when I come out and try to be in a busy place where it would be more prevalent I get burned by others etc!.!.you can imagine!. I can list off the places over the last 5 years but we can all do that!. Ten points to the best answer but I would like to hear from all you others that dont get 10 points - its good to share for me and for you!. AndyWww@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
I actually do have both!. My depression affects my work!. I have emotional breakdowns, usually crying!. (I have recently been put on celexa and that is a great help) The anxiety isn't so easy for me!. If I get too anxious I get shaky, dizzy, sweaty, and often pass out and have pseudosiezures!. I am on medication, but it doesn't completly stop them!. I often get adgetated when around a lot of people, and sometimes for no reason what soever!. I will wring my hands and I start to stutter and my head twitches!. My work is great!. My manager understands and they usually just help me to get off the floor so I won't get hurt!. But I have been fired from 2 jobs and had to quit another because of this!. It's extremly frustrating!. If I work too many hours it causes me anxiety!. I have a disorder where my adrenalin kicks in when I don't need it, so my heart will start racing for no reason!. It used to be really scary, but I have been experiencing this for 11 years!. Well good luck to you!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I have suffered from chronic depression for the past twenty years and have to take off time off work about 3 years in total spread over this time for therapy and stays in the hospital!.
I am fortunate that I am in a unionized job and have coverage for this but it makes it very difficult as I think a lot of people
I work with think that I am just playing a game to get time off work!. People who do have not had depression or been with anyone who suffers from depression have no idea how
debiliting it can be!. The days I have spent lying in bed all
day unable to get up or get dressed!. I know that Winston Churchill suffered from bouts of the depression and he called it 'his black dog' that followed him about!. I have spent a lot of money on meds and doctors and therapists but each year it
seems to get worse and longer!. The only thing that keeps me
going is knowing that I will eventually come out of the dark pit that I am in because I know that I have done it before!. I have
just come out of a four month bout of depression and am on the upswing again so I am feeling pretty good!. I wouldn't even be on this site if I was at the bottom of the pit!.
Good luck to you!Www@Answer-Health@Com
I am fortunate that I am in a unionized job and have coverage for this but it makes it very difficult as I think a lot of people
I work with think that I am just playing a game to get time off work!. People who do have not had depression or been with anyone who suffers from depression have no idea how
debiliting it can be!. The days I have spent lying in bed all
day unable to get up or get dressed!. I know that Winston Churchill suffered from bouts of the depression and he called it 'his black dog' that followed him about!. I have spent a lot of money on meds and doctors and therapists but each year it
seems to get worse and longer!. The only thing that keeps me
going is knowing that I will eventually come out of the dark pit that I am in because I know that I have done it before!. I have
just come out of a four month bout of depression and am on the upswing again so I am feeling pretty good!. I wouldn't even be on this site if I was at the bottom of the pit!.
Good luck to you!Www@Answer-Health@Com