Poll Have You Worked Throughout Your Ptsd?

[Friday]

I've worked in cycles over the past 15 some odd years.

Sometimes full time & multiple jobs.
Sometimes part time
Sometimes incapable of working (or any other kind of life-management)

Where I seem to work best is purposefully arranging my work-life to follow smaller versions of those cycles. So instead of going years unemployable, I tend to follow a more academic style calendar of quarter on, break, quarter on, break. Small spaced regular breaks instead of waiting until meltdown! meltdown!

Since there's no multiple answer possible... Just keeping my answer here.

 

[Gadgie]

I had been working away normally for years, before I was diagnosed with having PTSD?

I had always thought something was wrong, but I just "black humour" to shrug things off, just like the rest of my workmates that I worked with in the emergency service?

 

[chrissym]

Have you worked full time or part time whilst having PTSD or have you been unable to work throughout? Wh...

i haven't been able to work since my c-ptsd started and i've been on full disability ever since...i hope that someday i'll be able to work again but i can't concentrate, i can't remember things i was told 5 mins ago, i have an extremely hard time dealing with people almost constant anxiety attacks. so i just don't know what i could do, i've always worked, all my life and now i feel kinda useless because i feel like i'm not contributing to my family or to the human race

 

[mary1979]

I've worked variously as full time and part time over the 2 decades of my ptsd diagnosis.

Not because I want to, but through necessity.
Mostly been a single mum of 3 during that time, the kids dad has been less than supportive and someone has to keep us going.

Hardest times are through the depressive stages when its all I can do to drag my sorry backside out of bed in the morning.

When I'm in anxiety states its not so bad because I generally cant sit still for long then anyway.

Its also a welcome distraction from my own self loathing for a while too, work can be a blessing in disguise. I'd probably have killed my liver with drink by now if I didn't have to work 5 days a week lol

 

[agirls]

I am a teacher, so technically I have the summer off. That happens to be when more stuff surfaces because emotionally the space is there. I do tutor in summer and gave my own two kids to care for. Though they've gone to a day camp for the last two summers do I could get a break.

 

[DucatiGirl]

I seem to go in cycles on a set time frame and end up changing jobs every three-ish years -- been a pattern for the last 20 years. I am on my own, so the only source of income is me, and I have no choice but to work, like many of us here. I am currently working extremely hard with the therapist and support team to stop this pattern. Coming up on my 2 year anniversary, so we'll see in about a year, I guess.