I’m 20 yrs old and I struggle to go to work everyday and I miss a lot of days because my ocd convinces me that I will get yelled at or not know what to do. But then when I don’t go to work I feel useless and like a bum Does anyone else struggle with this and what have you found that helps(maybe a different career path that’s not as bad on my ocd)
Fuck yeah! Every job ive worked im 22 and at work I am constently thinking about how wrong everything I just did was. Im at work now and it was pretty shitty but im break so theres hope. Try to stay grounded in the moment dont retreat to ur head I do tbis and it solves nothing.
Can't give real advice, but I absolutely feel this. I primarily have SOCD but only today realized how much fear of making mistakes at work has affected me throughout life. It makes me feel unreliable, like I'm going to make a huge mistake and everyone I work with will hate me. It especially sucks since I'm usually in fast paced busy positions :(
Hi everyone. Has OCD impacted your abilities in work and/or school?? Things at work have pretty much gone up in flames for me at the beginning of last year and I haven’t worked since then and I am doing well in college but I need a job and I don’t know if I’m ready to work or if i can cope etc. could anyone share how their ocd impacts work or school? Makes me feel so alone
how do you all deal with going to work while having ocd? i have to go to work tomorrow for the first time in a while and i’ve been obsessing really bad the past couple of weeks. i’m scared i won’t actually be able to function or anything because all i’ve been doing every day all day has been obsessing. i’m really nervous. any advice will be appreciated.
Hey everyone! I’m new to this app, but not new when it comes to OCD treatments. A few years ago I had to leave school/ my job in order to work on my mental health which was hard but needed. Mentally things have more or less gotten better OCD wise but I still really struggle with protectionism. I started a new job within the past 6 months that is challenging, but I enjoy enough to hopefully stay at for a few years. As of the past two weeks I have been really struggling with ruminating over my performance at work. I have been trying really hard to learn all the moving parts of the job, but because of lack of mentoring and constant little hiccups I have been stressing. Currently I have been overwhelmed/ overthinking so much that I have been messing up my work and it seems like my coworkers are pretty annoyed by constantly having to correct me. It’s honestly my worst fear as a perfectionist to feel like a burden. My intrusive thoughts as of late is that they are going to think I don’t care or try hard enough, that they talk bad about me to each other, and that they are going to fire me. Has anyone else experienced this type of OCD perfectionism that affects there performance within school or work and if so is there anything that you did in order to help recenter yourself in the moment to stop your brain from running in circles?
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