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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
Good for you for standing up for yourself. You need to be getting scheduled breaks. It’s disgusting that teachers have to deal with that. For everyone who doesn’t know ADA is the Americans with Disabilities Act and we can ask for reasonable accommodations from our employer so that we can do our job because OCD is considered a disability.
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- Date posted
- 6y ago
I’m so sorry that you’re employer doesn’t believe in giving you the breaks you deserve. A job should not stress you to the point of suicide. That’s terrible. I told my boss about my OCD because she criticized me for being too “panicked” about a certain unexpected/stressful situation at work (I am a social work supervisor so stress is part of the job but this situation was over the top and honestly uncalled for). Anyway, her response was that if I have OCD, I should have performed the task better because I would’ve paid closer attention to detail. I was so angry she would stereotype me like that! Anyway, I decided not to make any formal complaint about that comment but now that I’ve disclosed the disability, I know I’ll have some recourse if they make any further comments or try to penalize me for something directly related to the OCD. It’s terrible to have to think of things that way, but we need to stand up for and protect ourselves. We have rights.
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- 6y ago
@justbee you are SO brave. My ADA is requesting for me to go part time. Regardless of my OCD, my job is expecting too much from one person. I'm in constant fight or flight mode and it's so bad on my physical health. Financially this will turn us upside down, but I'd rather be poor than no longer on earth. You are so brave for quitting. I want to, but my husband doesn't have insurance. I keep applying for other jobs, but no luck yet. I really wanted to work at The Disney Store lol
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- 6y ago
I am so proud of you. I am/was a teacher for two years. It was so bad that I had to quit. I barely made it to the end of the school year Alive. My principal was a dick and was not helpful or accommodating. They even refused my request off to go to the psychiatrist I had waited months to get in to. Now I have a part time gymnastics coaching job and my husband thankfully found a better job, and we moved from a house to apartment so I can be home to heal. It has been so hard to not be hard on myself - I miss my students so much.
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 6y ago
@AmyGirl, try to look at going part time as an opportunity to explore something you’ve always wanted to do, as opposed to doing something out of necessity. I often will daydream about what career/lifestyle I would have chosen if I didn’t need to rely on my current income. I’m hopeful that, some day, I will be able to explore some of those avenues.
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- 17w ago
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- 16w ago
Hello! I am really looking for some advice. I have been struggling with OCD for a few years now and it drastically affects my daily life. I am going to give a quick run through of my OCD, and then the current situation I am in now. So for almost 2 years now my most prominent themes of OCD have been getting sick with the stomach bug (emetaphobia) and watching someone die/ having to see large amount of blood or do CPR on someone (I just graduated nursing school). Last year I stopped eating out, wouldn’t touch any of my food with my hands, would wash my hands until they bleed every day, bleached everything I touched when I was in public etc… I would have these major panic attacks all the time and the thought of getting sick hasn’t left my head 24/7 for 2 years. I was unable to complete my nursing school clinicals due to panic attacks each time I was at the hospital afraid someone would die and get these terrible images in my head. I didn’t sleep ever, barely graduated. I did ERP after school and was able to make up the clinical days I missed. Got to a point where I was eating again, felt like I was able to get my hands clean just by washing them. I have been doing exposures every day, and have accepted that getting sick will probably happen at one point and I am okay with it as long as I am at home when it happens. So locking myself in my apartment for 48hr every time after I could have been exposed to the stomach bug is major progress for me and I have been overall doing much better. Fast forward to now: It’s time for me to start my new job on a med/surg floor in a hospital. This week I have made it through a few days of orientation with panic attacks day and night but I am doing it even though I am petrified. I don’t feel ready for this big of a step, being exposed to both of my biggest fears constantly. Today at orientation the girl sitting next to me told me she had been vomiting all day, and continued to run out of the room a vomit the rest of the day. I now am 90% sure I am going to get sick and feel as if I would rather die than continue this amount of stress and anxiety I have felt from just a few days of being on the job. This is my BIGGEST fear and it’s coming true and I don’t know if it’s worth putting myself through this every day at work to just be having constant panic attacks and be miserable. I know with OCD you have to face your fears but I have been pushing myself and trying so hard and I don’t feel like it’s worth it to work this job. I would also feel incredibly guilty for quitting on the first week, but there are a million other nursing jobs that are not in a hospital. I think this is too big of a step for me right now but I wanted to see what others think. Any advice at all is so appreciated!
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