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- Anonymous
- Date posted
- 3y ago
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- @sum1@sum1
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I guess it depends on how much ocd interacts with a specific job/how much it affects you/the work. generally speaking from experience I would say it doesn't affect holding down jobs
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- Lms526Lms526
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I have OCD and I work full time. It doesn't hinder my ability to hold down a job. I am fortunate to work for a company that is very understanding and supportive of people who struggle with mental illness.
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- JohnGJohnG
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Yes, OCD can certainly have an affect on someone's ability to have/keep a job. However, that doesn't mean that just because you have OCD that you can't have a job. Different factors like the type and severity of one's OCD and the type of job can make all the difference. Personally, I lost a job due to my OCD, but was given another job within the same company and have excelled in that role. For me, it just about finding the right fit.
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- lad33lad33
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I have OCD and I work at a treatment center for people with OCD :) it’s incredibly challenging, but just as rewarding!!
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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 3y ago
during my first job i was having a lot of intrusive thoughts which made it hard to pay attention to my trainer. i ended up getting fired after 2 weeks
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- Cranium PizzaCranium Pizza
- Date posted
- 3y ago
It certainly can. I struggled for 16 years in my career before I finally had to leave due to OCD, bipolar one disorder, and attention span issues that have still not been explained. But it was mostly the OCD. And my employers were very supportive…Almost too supportive and how much they let slide. But everyone’s illness is a little different in terms of severity and how the disease has manifested. And every job is different. So the short answer is yes but the long answer is it can but doesn’t have to.
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- Daniellewane
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- 5y ago
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
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- BF109G-6
- Date posted
- 3y ago
When my ocd is bad should I stay home from work? Or does that just reinforce the fear? I've even considered quitting my job because of this. On my bad days I've almost cried at my station and it took all my power to not. I just feel terrible and robbed of who I was before.
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- Nerdwithocd
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Work related ruminations
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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