Mowgli

Date posted: 43w

Helped needed….. I started work again this year….

I started work again this year after not working for a few years. I was fine for the first couple of months, then I started to notice anxiety creeping back in and stress, couple of weeks ago my ocd flared up and I couldn’t sleep. I’m thinking maybe the job I have is too stressful for me. It’s not that the job is a trigger for me and to continue would be a good form of exposure, it’s that it’s a high stress job, and maybe not good for my health overall. Anyone else with experience in this?

Kellymerellie

Date posted: 43w

Working at a highly stressful job can make OCD more apparent, especially if your triggers are where you work. But, I think it's just stress and that stress is causing your OCD to manifest outside of work because you are stressed about work. Maybe try meditation or listen to some calling music. Do something that makes you happy and that helps lower your anxiety naturally everyday. Finding ways to cope with stress should help with the OCD part too. I feel this way, because it's probably the stress from work tahtbia causing the OCD flare up, so lowering it can help lower the OCD too.

Mowgli

Date posted: 43w

@Kellymerellie I’m thinking this job is not suitable for me, I had a breakdown a few years ago and stopped this job. I thought this year it would be ok to start again, but maybe it’s not for me. Even for someone without ocd this job is high stress. So my health should come first I think

Kellymerellie

Date posted: 43w

@Mowgli Yes for sure. Your mental health and physical health should always come first. Maybe start searching for other career options and maybe you'll I'll find a better fit. 😊

Mowgli

Date posted: 43w

@Kellymerellie I know what I want to do, but it’s gonna take some time. I also know I went back to what I did before just for the money

Kellymerellie

Date posted: 43w

@Mowgli Ya and sadly now a days you need a good job to be able to afford anything, so it's tempting to go somewhere just for the money, but if it's too stressful, then it isn't worth it

Mowgli

Date posted: 43w

@Kellymerellie Yup, it’s defo not worth it, I just have to be careful with money and look after myself

Kellymerellie

Date posted: 43w

@Mowgli Yes! Please look after yourself and everything will fall into place when you find a better suiting job for you.

Mowgli

Date posted: 43w

@Kellymerellie Thank you

Kellymerellie

Date posted: 43w

@Mowgli You're welcome. Good luck with everything 😊

Mowgli

Date posted: 43w

@Kellymerellie Now I’ve thought about it this morning (uk) I’m gonna email all my clients and quit today!

Kellymerellie

Date posted: 43w

@Mowgli I'm happy for you. 😊 I would've suggested finding another job first or at least have a side plan for making a small income like house sitting and such. That's what I do right now since I am also not working at a job, because I was stressed and I am working on my mental health, but it could be good just to take a step back. As long as your income or incomes (if you live with someone) allows it, then I say go for it.

Mowgli

Date posted: 43w

@Kellymerellie I’m self employed so it was easy to stop, well not the emotional part. The nature of the job means i am literally unable to do it. Luckily my family are seeing me through this difficult period

Kellymerellie

Date posted: 43w

@Mowgli That's good! I'm happy everything will work out. Just keep working on yourself mentally and physically and everything will work out. I am happy your family is there for you. It's important to have a good support system.

Mowgli

Date posted: 43w

@Kellymerellie Thank you

wiki_xo

Date posted: 24w

A nurse with OCD

I just started my new job maybe a couple months ago and I’m officially off orientation. I had a couple shifts by myself but the anxiety I feel being alone is honestly beastly. I keep getting scared that I’ll end up giving my patients someone else’s medications, keep having thoughts of “what if I give patient A medications to patient C.” My hair keeps falling out, I get such bad pre work and post work anxiety. On my days off all I think about is work. It’s taking a toll on my mental health and my relationship with my boyfriend. I am mad and stressed all the time. I’m just so tired and I honestly feel like I’m getting depressed. I want to stick it out a couple more months so I can get a job somewhere that’s not in a hospital. I just feel so stuck and scared all the time. If anyone else is a nurse with OCD what did you do to help with your anxiety and OCD?

Young adults with OCD

Disko

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 24w

Struggling in a new job healthcare

It’s been a really long time since I’ve been here. I’m about to go back to school for nursing. But right now I’m working as a nursing assistant in the hospital. Idk if it’s my body adjusting to seeing new INTENSE things every day or shoving so much information into me at once with long 12 hour shifts. And when I’m at work and conscious it’s completely fine. But when I come home and sleep I wake up from bad dreams. Yesterday at work there were maybe 10 rapids (when you call an emergency for your patient, don’t always have a good ending) and I woke up this morning remembering my dream that I was in the hospital and my heart stopped and they had to call a rapid on me. Maybe it’s not even OCD??? And it’s just heavy heavy stuff that I’ve never seen before and it’s just my brain and body adjusting to life and things that can be really scary. It just feels a bit like when my OCD was bad and I’m scared I’m really in my head right now I don’t want it to get worse. Can anyone relate???

Anonymous

Date posted: 23w

Question

I’m so glad everybody has a comfortable job where they can pay for therapy. But I’ve realized my ocd has gotten worse at the job I’m currently at and I don’t want to quit because the job market is never hiring and I always have bills to pay like every freaking week on top of that I’m still in college. I think being stressed is making my ocd worse.

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