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I’m a makeup artist in retail and I have special disability accommodations that allow me to function and keep my job on days when my anxiety makes it too difficult to work.
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What accommodation helps? I'm thinking of asking for one at work but not sure what to ask for?
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Some accommodations I have had include working five hour shifts, allowed to miss three days per month as needed, extra 20 minute break for panic attacks as needed, working in the mornings and afternoons only
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There aren’t really any jobs catered to OCD sadly. I personally want a work from home job like medical biller
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That’s not bad to be honest! It’s a pretty decent job I know my mom does that.
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I have no official diagnosis but I'm staff at a law firm. I have my paralegal cert but I haven't gotten a job with it so I'm still staff. I thought about law school but the hours required and lack of sleep really really messes with my mental health so I'm not sure what else to say. But that's what I've been doing for awhile.
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What do you do there?
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@Anonymous:,( I used to prepare letters and forms that they filed. But now I'm doing some tracking of internal projects and paying attendion to those bills. I also do work with some attorneys on certain billing items. Right now it's pretty niche in the place I'm at.
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@Catperson10 Are you able to stay focused? One of my big problems sometimes is rumination. Do you ruminate at work?
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@Anonymous:,( So yes I can focus but when I get into my anxiety zone (I might find later that's my ocd) I have a very hard time focusing and I have to take my xanax to be able to complete anything. I used to be very well controlled and could focus. But I have to focus hard for like 30 mins then break. But I can focus very well if there's a strict deadline and a real rush. I can't explain it. I might have ADHD too but I'm dealing with this too. I also have to have at least one headphone in with white noise or those nature white noise. Otherwise I can get very distracted. But I have absolutely been struggling with this the last year.
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@Anonymous:,( I meant to say I think it's rumination but when I have big anxiety I've had to call out sick before. So it's definitely an issue for me.
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@Catperson10 Yeah that makes sense. I had a bad habit of doing that but I broke it. Now I feel like I’m starting to do that calling out again because I just want to be home :(
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@Anonymous:,( I have to physically be back in the office so I'm not sure how I'm going to do with that. We're hybrid schedule but I'm a mess around people now. I'll definitely post how it goes here though.
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This isn't a stupid question I used to want to be an RN or MD or something related to one of my other conditions. I had thought I could be really good at empathizing with those patients since I've been through it. But...germphobia and I absolutely cannot function without sleep. I used to have a huge fear of blood for like a decade. Like I'm not even exaggerating about the sleep though.
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I have a fear of blood as well. I get so many what if thoughts about it! That’s understandable though like who doesn’t need their sleep!
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@Anonymous:,( Right? I don't understand why some industries allow that kind of treatment of their valuable workers! I'm not sure how I got through the blood thing. I wish I could tell you. I think it got replaced with the germphobia in general.
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@Catperson10 Yeah you literally need sleep to function! It’s okay since I was a kind I’ve always had fear of blood. I kinda just let the thoughts be tbh
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@Anonymous:,( We really do need sleep!
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I don't know if this is super OCD related, but it's just there are so many things I want to do in life, but I'm scared. I want to apply for this restaurant waitress job near me, but I'm worried I'd be terrible at it as I have no experience and I'm worried they wouldn't train me properly. What if someone has an allergy and I accidentally serve them the wrong food and they have a severe allergic reaction and something awful happens and then I'm sued or go to prison? It feels like there's so many things holding me back. What if I give someone a drink but a piece of my hair falls in? It just feels like I'm never going to be able to do anything. I've never tried anything, never properly stepped out of my comfort zone, never had any kind of job. So I'm so nervous to try anything in life because there are so many things that could go wrong.
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- 24w
Does anyone have OCD regarding always feeling like you are not good enough at your job? I'm 58 years old now I've had OCD since childhood. Every job I've been at I never felt as good as my colleagues. I am a nurse but I worked at that for 15 years I had a breakdown of sorts in 2017 and went on disability. I now work part time as a a swim instructor for kids. I always was afraid of killing someone when I was a nurse. Then I tried dog grooming but I was afraid I would do it wrong and hurt the dogs. At least now the stakes are lower. But my OCD is the same. I work with colleagues who are about 40 years younger than I am . I am afraid of teaching certain classes bc I feel like I wouldn't do as good a job as someone else. I know I can do it but it's like I have a fear of not giving them their money's worth. I've been at my current job for 2 years . I've gotten very positive comments from my managers but I can't seem to believe them. I feel a lot of shame bc I lost a lot of my life to OCD and I am at an age where people are starting to retire after long and successful careers and here I am working at an entry level job. I'm planning on trying to get out of my comfort zone and teaching some of the classes I'm afraid of .it's really hard. I'm always scared what if I lose my benefits and had to work again as a nurse how would I do it.
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I had avoided a lot with school specifically, but I did do it in other areas of life as well. School for some reason has been the biggest trigger that sends me into avoidance and it has been for the longest time. Does anybody relate? If so, what did you do to help besides therapy? In high school I used to sit in the bathroom stalls for hours so I could avoid going to classes. I was struggling to keep up because my OCD makes me perfect my school work so much so to the point where I’d never turn it in because I’d never be satisfied with what I’d produce. I’d get so incredibly frustrated with myself and the fact that I could never meet my own standards, never mind the rubrics given. I took ages analyzing all my writing, all my answers, all my google slides and I burnt myself out. So I stopped trying. I stopped turning in work because I’d never be satisfied. I’d cry because I felt I wasn’t good enough. Then I’d be missing assignments, getting them done but not submitting them because I was too ashamed. So, I avoided classes because I’d be in trouble or be called out for not getting anything done. Unfortunately this habit bled into my first year of college last year, and OCD coupled up with depression, made going to the dining hall and attending classes even worse. So I avoided it all together. It’s so hard being a freshman in college, so so hard. I unfortunately failed out of that school but I tried to medically withdraw either semester. No, I wasn’t partying, or drinking or smoking or hanging with the wrong people. I was a college freshman struggling with ocd and depression. I’m trying to not make excuses for myself either because I’m well aware this is my fault and I’m trying to reverse it now at community college. Right now I’m trying to get those Fs turned into Ws from my old school so I can fix my gpa. I want to transfer, I want to be a forensic psychologist, I want to be independent, I want to be ok. It’s gonna take me so long to transfer from community college but that’s on me. I’m willing to put in the work. I’m so embarassed, please help me.
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