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Accepting Limitations

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BDAR

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This week my butt was been kicked when I was forced to see I have impairment of my ability to focus and concentrate. I hate to admit I have limitations. My reaction to my discovery of my limitations was to take flight and quit my job out of total embarrassment. An act I deeply regret now, but I was triggered, missed that I was triggered and self destructed. Cannot undo that now, I blew it and I feel like crap about it. I certainly did little to show I was a stable employee.

I was under a lot of a stress this week, 2 floods in the house, extensive damage, insurance companies, my son moving, my son's roommate grabbed my arm and pushed me against the wall and then I returned to work where my boss told me that 80 to 90% of what I was doing was wrong and I was f*cking up big time. My mistakes where actually costing the company money. I cried and my inter critic saw the opportunity and took full advantage of it. I now know that I was triggered but at the time, I did not.

Here is they way I described it to a friend. Picture a large piece of unbreakable thick glass. Now picture yourself looking through that glass and you can see your life and your abilities before you became sick. You can see how capable your were, and your confidence. Now picture yourself trying to perform those same tasks but instead of being an exceptional performing employee your are performing at a 10 to 20 percent rate. You use to perform at 100 + %. You use to get awards for your work. You use to get bonus money and additional bonus money reserved for outstanding employees. Now you cannot even copy data from a purchase to the computer without messing something up.

It is frustrating, embarrassing and left me wanting to run away, which I did. I was so embarrassed I could not even talk to my boss about it. All I could do is cry at the thought that I have become so useless and that I cannot work due to my limitations. My frustration at myself boiled over and I became very angry with myself and I punished my "inability to perform" by quitting. I justified my fear by say to myself that I was costing the company money. That I needed to be fair and give my boss away out because I was such a screw up and I was not honest with him in the first place.

Of course my boss took my resignation because I was acting like a crazy ass bitch and who needs the drama.. Like I said I did little to help my case and look like a normal stable person. No wonder he jumped at it.

I am such an idiot. This company was willing to work with me but I the panic of being treated differently and needing help for such easy tasks overwhelmed me. UGH! I hate myself for this mess and over reacting. I feel like a complete loser. UGH!!! Why cannot I just be normal

How do you get your confidence and self-esteem back? How do you stop being a f*ck up?
 
Hey, congrats on taking the first step...acknowledging that there is a problem! Now, if we can just move to acceptance, we can actually deal with the issues and maybe get a little bit better!

I know how you feel...I did something similar at my job a few months ago. Completely freaked out when they triggered me, and quit that day. I still haven't found any work, and I'm REALLY stressing out about finances, but I know I can't work regular, easy, minimum-wage jobs in my current state. I signed up with a state agency that focuses on assisting and rehabilitating people with disabilities who want to get back to work. I'm seeing some forward movement from them, but its not going fast enough. Right now, i just have to accept each day as it comes, find my little joys and successes in each moment of each day, and give myself permission to have serious issues. This is difficult, but its the only way to keep moving forward.

Good luck on your journey. Its a tough one, but we can do this.....
 
This week my butt was been kicked when I was forced to see I have impairment of my ability to focus and concentrate. I hate to admit I have limitations. My reaction to my discovery of my limitations was to take flight and quit my job out of total embarrassment. An act I deeply regre

We are all human, so accepting our limititations is a huge leap into awareness i think.

I sense you being so overwhelmed right now and kicking the crap our of yourself, I could be wrong. I do not think that we can go back to before, I think this is a illusion. I understand your anguish, pain and struggles you are experiencing, yet this marks a chance for you to take a break and get stable first before trying again.

I sure hope that this makes sense.I think it is sad that you maybe defining yourself as a f*ck up. As a human being I have made so many mistaken choices but I sense that you appear to be so overwhelmed that self care is desperately needed in your life as well as learning how to be patient with yourself as you are now. I hope that you have a good support system in place to best help you in the way you need at the present moment.:hug:

You have learned something important about yourself for now and this may be a temporary experience for you. When you are ready to start looking for work I think you will be armed with this new information and develop a strategy and a plan to help you to feel safer as you attempt a job again once you have healed and recovered somewhat. I sure hope that I am not missing what you said and if so just please toss all of what I have said to you.
 
Gizmo, you hit the nail on the head, I am beating myself up. Doing well at work has always been important to me and at every job have ever had I have excelled, gotten great performance requires and been got to source for knowledge. Maybe I need this recognition that I have done a good job because I failed 2 grades and for most of my life I have been made to feel stupid. Doing well at work was my way of telling myself all those kids who made fun of me and called me names and stopped hanging with me were wrong. It is hard to describe.

Compared to jobs I have had and over achieved at, this job should have been easy for e to do. When I did get the news I sucked at it, I freaked out. I could not believe I could make so many mistakes, wow, shocker! Oh my God, what is wrong with me? I had to run away so I quit. The experts said I may not be able to do this, but I always felt I could. It was a huge blow to here I was doing so much wrong. What a blow to my confidence and self-esteem.

I was triggered and as such make a bunch of bad decisions. I feel like a f*ck up, I cannot do the job, I failed at an easy job I should have been able to do this with my eyes closed. In stead failed. I f*cked up.
 
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