How to cope with work life with your disorders?
I was walking to work yesterday night, I start around 10PM and I spent the entire day dreading and feeling my internal amounts of anxiety and pressures of all the possible things that could go wrong before I set off. it didn't help that my mental health as of late has not been ideal. by the time I reached my work place, I was a wreck, and I asked my boss for the day off.
It must seem incredibly ridiculous to him, that despite only working part time, and for 2 years that someone can just be consumed by the fear of being judged by everyone around them so that person would rather just not go.
How do you deal with going to work with your anxiety?
@Reliableplace2207 Hi I've always had social anxiety and called in sick to school a lot when I was a kid, because of the social anxiety. I'm currently seeking counseling for my social anxiety. It's never affected my work, though. In fact, I started working full-time at age 15 and have been working full-time ever since (age 49 now). Work has always been my ESCAPE from my social anxiety. That being said - I've never made a true friend at work. At work, even though there are a lot of other people around, and I have to talk to and interact with people all day every day, I don't feel pressured to interact with them socially. It's a job, I'm doing it for money, and they are coworkers and patients/clients/customers not potential friends. I learn the rules and everything I need to do a good job, I do the best job I can, and I follow scripts. At work, I feel like I can hide behind the "professional" me. Nobody needs to really know me or like me. I'm there to do a job and I do an excellent job. I show up early, work efficiently, stay late when necessary and I am paid for the work I do not for making friends. I just have to remove my emotions from it as much as possible so I can go to work and pay my bills. Also - when I was young and just starting work - I always got jobs where I worked with people older than me, not my peers. That helped the pressure a lot because I was just a kid working with adults and didn't feel like I needed to perform socially or make friends with them.
