Working with someone else with anxiety

[Constance55]

I just started a new job and on the 1st day my trainer is letting me knowing that she has anxiety and doesn't want to take any medication but is taking CBD drops and it helps her after 30 mins.

Well I suffer from severe anxiety and I take Klonopin and it seems to help me until I started working with her as she is going through her anxiety episodes. I let her know I have the same thing and that it took me a long time to finally end up with a medication that helps me through the day.

Now I have become you therapist on the 3rd day and on my 4 day she says She's planning on quitting due to her episodes and that she was going home early. It was only 11am. I tried my best to calm her down and understand as she keep taking drops and walking around. We never left but it was her saying we were every 15 mins that was driving me crazy. By the end of the day I was so exhausted and drained. I had an anxiety attack from not knowing if I can deal if one more day of this. I cried it got so bad and I called out the next day and I am dreading to go back. Now I feel like I have gone backwards and I am falling into depression and not wanting to do anything. I need to work but I don't want to go back.

[Hidden]

Hello

I know you wrote your post a few days ago now and things might have changed but if not I would keep it simple and say

I struggle so much with my own anxiety and trying to find the best way to deal with it for me as we can all have anxiety but different methods can help different people but because I am struggling I empathise with what you are going through but I really don't feel strong enough at this moment to be able to cope with anyone else's anxiety , I know you will understand been a sufferer yourself

Leave it at that she may not be over the moon to start with but hopefully she will back of after as you cannot let someone else drag you down x

[Constance55 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you. I let her know that it was too much for me and I wished her the best and I had to quit. I have been doing so much better since.

[Hidden in reply to Constance55]

I am so glad to here that and that you feel a lot better now to x