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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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OCD doesn't take a break just because you have work to do. What are some ways that OCD has popped up for you at your work?
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Often times I find myself spiraling out in the morning about all sorts of things. When I try and catch myself and figure out what I am obsessing over it’s like it goes away. I haven’t moved. I have been sitting frozen on the floor because I can’t go to work because I am behind on work and I hate being late and I hate being messy but I am frequently late and my room is cluttered and full of stuff. I want to be good and move and go to work but I don’t know what is coming today and I hate my job so I know I will get bored and when I have nothing to keep me busy and engaged I like start thinking and taking an inventory of what is going on and then I will feel a sensation and what is the sensation? How did it happen? And I know that I will pick up the bad emotions in the office and get contaminated, I was really worried about things like this as a kid too I cried because I had to touch dirt in kindergarten. I know I am this way and I have been this way for a while but at the same time I think I might just be normal and like I don’t know why I get stuck in thinking like this. Then I begin to doubt that OCD is real because everyone has a brain with wiring and everyone gets stuck in thought sometimes. I feel disabled from whatever this is because I am stuck. I literally cannot move because I don’t know what’s wrong and I know I have to go to work even though I feel like every moment I spend there is making everything worse because other people are so stressed and I get it from them. And I don’t feel ready because I just feel off and something is wrong and I just don’t know what to do because if it’s OCD or not OCD everything anyone knows about me is coming from me and I worry that I am often masking all the thinking I’m doing because thinking all the time is rude and inconsiderate and inconvenient for those around me, but I can’t stop. I just don’t feel right, right now - and I want to know WHY?? Why is everything off all the time? How do I even know that I am not making up the experience of OCD in my head to cover up something really wrong with me and now I am taking on the symptoms of OCD like an actress, because this could be something that I can latch onto as a final hope for explaining why I am stuck. So stuck so deeply and terribly stuck sitting on my floor next to my bed just scrolling to avoid thinking because any time I start thinking I am left with no answers or help or anything just this swirly feeling. I know I am trying, maybe not my best, but as much as I possibly can. I want to be a Special Education Teacher but I have so much so so so much doubt and uncertainty about every decision I make and everything I know that I can’t get there right now. I can’t do anything right now until it feels ok and then I will. It never feels ok. I know I have to be ok not feeling ok about it. I can be unsure and still be ok. I know it’s just my thinking and my body but I just can’t get past this feeling. And then I know that because I can calm myself and be ok even though I spent 2 hours of my life today already feeling stuck and spinning around and around and around in my head - I don’t feel sure about my OCD and I think it’s a bit of a scam made up by people to cultivate pathology around deep human thought because one day I might figure it out and we all think a lot.
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