[chitown]

It seems like a double edge sword. I need to go to work to make money because I am anxious about money, but work also makes me very anxious.
How do some of you deal with that?
I am glad that this communtiy is here and I am grateful to know that I am not the only one who suffers.
I know I don't post much, but I am always checking in.
Thanks in advance for any help

[BalishBun]

Its hard to deal with it, sometimes I think to myself "Maybe if I can get someone to pay my bills I can go on a 6 month leave to get better". Then I snap back to reality and realise thats not going to happen. I need to go to work and make money, but if I take time off to try and conquer the anxiety I cant get bills paid. It is a double edge sword I agree.

[Cyran0]

I wish I could help. I have the opposite problem. Anxiety has turned me into a workaholic.

Cyran0

[BalishBun]

I have been working a lot lately, but its only because i need the money. I do miss working with a crew, I work at the hotel and most of the time i am the ONLY one working. And during the slow months the quiet is so loud!

[Brian37]

anxiety also makes me a workaholic...then again im a self-employed small business owner....so im supposed to work 80 hours a week

[chitown]

work triggers the "What if" thinking and the catastrophizing. I am always concerned that I am not good enough, or "did I do that right?".
Somedays, like today, I just want to stear my work van off into the ditch so I don't have to go to work. It scares me that I would want to hurt myself so I don't have to face work.
I know that is not the way to handle it and I can get thru that, but man days can be tough. Especially when you have an ***** for a foreman.
Thanks for letting me know I am not alone.

[BalishBun]

At one point I was so scared that I would take a route to work that had a hospital on the way just in case I needed to stop at the hospital.

[Azalysa]

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It seems like a double edge sword. I need to go to work to make money because I am anxious about money, but work also makes me very anxious.
How do some of you deal with that?

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I don't Which is why I'm anxiously awaiting the disability decision.

I am sooo glad you posted this, Chitown. {{{Hugs}}} I have been feeling miserable about this very situation lately and so glad to see I am not alone.

[Perna]

I've been anxious about work (especially when I start a new job, for about the first 6 months) and have deliberately gotten jobs "easy" for me to do in order to have less anxiety. When I can figure out what sorts of things make me most anxious about a job (answer phones, working in a group or others dependent on my work, etc.) then I sometimes have taken jobs with those tasks to try and work through the anxiety or the opposite, made sure those tasks were not part of the job.

[EJ711]

Chitown,

Since a series of losses that occurred all in the same year in 2002, I cannot handle work stresses the way I once did.

What is currently working for me is teaching college on a part-time basis. This means I work all week at home on my lectures and class prep, and then drive once a week (it's a haul -- almost four hours round trip), and teach for three hours.

Praying for the answer to your situation,

EJ

Well, personally I have been too disabled by mental health issues to be in a work like setting for almost three years now. And now that I am doing a bit better, I am about to be a single mom, so I likely won't be going back for some time now.

I think you do what you can..And if that means scaling back, sometimes we have to do that too. But it is very hard, i agree.

[chitown]

Thanks for all the replies. It seems that several people can relate on one aspect or another and I think that this has helped me as well as others. Thank you! {{{{{{HUGS TO ALL}}}}}}