Poll Does Your PTSD Affect Your Employment Status?

[mikeyo]

I am on a dissbility pension from the n.y.c.t.a ,also on workersman compension and social security disability

 

[mikeyo]

I am going on on my 27 month with ptsd .Ihave been reading that some are working full time jobs there must be something i am missing . There is know way i can work .There are days i cant even leave the house . So is there different stages of ptsd ? like a 1 to 10 scale . I am om s.s.d. workmans comp/ disability pension .

 

[Other]

I have been unable to attain/keep any kind of consistent work. Most days I find it hard just to leave my room, let alone the home or go to anywhere significant. The best I have been able to achieve is getting to therapy and to doctor appointments, which is a significant change for me. Though it may not be enough, because I do not have any kind of financial support system (I've never had a checking account or even a savings account, credit card, filed taxes, etc) and I won't be able to live where I am living now forever. So hopefully someday...

I put "resting".

 

[midi]

I put part time for work. Up until the accident, I worked full time and went to school full time, while being a single sole supporting parent without family support (which my Ex, who I did not live with, said repeatedly was easy). After the accident, I was forced to take 2 years for phsyical recovery and then told I'd never be able to work again due to both physical and mental issues. I ignored it and tried anyway. With the slightest bit of serious stress, I immediately walk off the job and never return. Currently, I'm still a single sole supporting parent (which I don't count, because hey, it's easy) and I grudingly work from home a couple hours a week. I tried to quit the part time gig, but the guy talked me out of it, so yeah...

 

[Cloud]

Hi,

I vote full time because I'm battling with my ptsd everyday emotionally and psychologically, I'm doing a lot worse than last 2 years. Though, physically my Chinese doctor has helped quite a bit. But I still don't want to do anything 'cuz I think I've finally lost the will to fight against fate. I'm so drained both physically and emotionally. The worse part is that I have no one to rely on, not one single friend who can hang-out with and let me be my miserable self. I tried to make new friends but it is very difficult with my condition. I'd still have to put on my actress mask and acting if there is nothing wrong with me. I've actiong for the last 30 years, I've gotten so good that no one was able to tell when I go to those meet-up groups to make new friends.............. I've made one female friend and after 3 months I finally told her about my ptsd. She said she'll support me but I think first she lives far away from me and 2nd she has many friends that she can hang-out with that don't have a lot issues that I have. I'm thinking she is not really going to be a real friend that I can count on but then again, I can't really expect too much from her since we've known each other for such a short time.

Kris

 

[dirtgirl42]

moved last year in the divorce, so still trying to hook up w/ a teaching gig. budget issues not helping. last job boss go in my face and yelled at me, couldn't tell you about what. couldn't deal with it. hard choice to make.

 

[TLight]

I was working 2 days a week at a nursery and on SSD. Now the nursery job is done....thought I'd made a couple of friends......but their gone. Calling one to do something and don't even get a call back. The others 'found out about me' and pretty much won't have anything to do with me.
Now I'm jobless and friendless..........hoping for better soon. I actually have training as a Biologist and Mathematician..........but the male bosses, so disrespectful and bullying........it broke me. Couldn't take it.

So many losses to deal with.
I hate it when people say 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' We'll, with all the traumas and mistreatment I've been through........I'm still here, just not sure why?
Feeling pretty lost and lonely today.

 

[tardis]

I voted full time. With a catch though, in my current postion in the computer industry I do virtually all my work from home. I would not be capable of a job where I had to deal with people constantly.

 

[Deleted member 1606]

Confused

The question doesn't seem to match the poll. One or the other should be changed.

 

[piglet]

Hi karma,

My intention with this poll was to find out how people with ptsd cope with working; are they able to work, and if so, is it part-time, full-time or self employed. The ratios of the different options have been fairly consistent, showing that almost half of ptsders are unable to work, and a third work full time. I'm thinking that the full-timers are those who cope/avoid by working.

piglet

 

[SoulComa]

I work full-time as an anthropologist.
I hink I'd go nuts if I wsn't able to work full time because I love my job and it gets my mind away from all the sh*t that has happened in my life and just makes me happy.
Plus I also care for my little son, who's gonna be 8 in February. So maybe I could say I have 2 full-time jobs? ;)

 

[Mina]

I work full-time. I did have to take a couple days off when I was bitten, but that's it. I changed jobs six months ago so that I was no longer working out of town, but am still full-time...just local now.

I've called in saying I'd be late a few times, mainly after having nightmares and getting no sleep, but other than that haven't missed work - although there have been a few days when I was pretty useless. I think I've used my job as something to keep me going. Even when I couldn't accomplish a simple load of laundry at home, I was in my element at work and could focus well. It was my distraction.