Hello everybody, I’m writing because I’m at work but I just keep having panic attacks and I’m not able to work. It has been like this for a long time and I can’t be productive I’m thinking about quitting. Do you have any similar experiences? What do you think I should do? Thank you
Isolation is really bad for ocd so please stay at work and even after work try your best to be around people like friends or family and neighbors, just be out an about with people and if you get any intrusive thoughts while with them try your best to accept them. Wishing you the best ❤️
I found not working and being at home to make my ocd worse. My ocd is worse when I have less to do.
I would get in therapy asap. Leaving work will only make it worse. And then the rest of your life will collapse as well
Keep pushing through quitting wood prove to your OCD that it was a safe thing to do, but obviously quitting your job would be detrimental and you would have to go find another one again soon anyway. Just keep pushing through, you got this :)
I would ask your Dr for panic attack meds that you can use as needed. I use hydroxazine for panic attacks
Thank you all for your kind answers I’ll try my best and stick to this job ❤️
@blp99 Also, if you’re sure it’s not your OCD and you just need a different job. You can go ahead and update your résumé and apply for other jobs and give them like two weeks. i’ve had fast food jobs and other jobs were they stressed me out so I had to go do a different job and I felt better somewhere else. Just I highly recommend that you keep having a job and other normal activities because once you stop doing things, it kind of makes your OCD worse and you stop functioning which is bad and harder to get back to a functioning level.
On my way home I had one of the worst panic attacks I’ve had in my entire life. I was driving Home from my peer support specialist class which is a bit far from me, my whole body was tingling, my heart beating really fast, and my whole body felt like it was going to give out and I would faint. I made it home thank God but I’m worried that these panic attacks will make it so I can’t do my job at work. I am going through a meditation change right now as I mentioned before. This has all been affecting me so much 😢
I need advice. Should I quit my job? Its making me very depressed and anxious everyday. I'm a cashier at a grocery store. I've been there for almost 4 months now and I thought it would get easier but it hasn't. Customers are so rude and it makes me feel like shit about myself. I also feel like a failure for not being able to handle it:(.
Who has quit a job due to a hostile environment? I worked as an in-home caregiver for the past 5 years which I absolutely loved, before that I worked in only restaurants. I moved in September and my client’s mother had retired so my hours were shortened. I decided to get something easy/part time so I started serving again in a restaurant. I’m a sensitive person as is, but I have one specific coworker who is a bully to me, a manager snapped at me and I cried, I avoid another manager cause he is mean, and another said the F word to me cause I dropped some scallops lol. Maybe they are small things and I am overreacting, but like every day before I go in there I am low key like hoping for someone to pull something so I can just leave. I woke up with anxiety looking at what time I start today. Idk why I’m having a hard time pulling the plug, I have only been there since September!! I look at my coworkers and I’m like how have you guys been here for years? Is no one seeing this? Any advice or just feedback would be great lol.
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