Working and Depression etc.

[Cazie50]

I don't know about anyone else, but it can be a bit of struggle at time to work while experiencing low mood, motivation problems etc. Add physical conditions to this equation and it's even harder.

At the same time though, work is good, it takes your mind off things, it keeps you motivated, it helps to be around other people, having a natter etc.

I also stagger my Annual Leave so that I'm never working for too long between times off.

Flexible working patterns are also very important and good support in work.

[Getting-By]

I agree when my depression is bad it can be hard to do anything. It is important to keep work up as that can keep your mind of things and keep you positive. Work can play a big part in your recovery and employers can play a big part in that.

[holsols]

good strategies - based on what works for you while maintaining the support work can offer

[LouisaMary]

I need to try and find a job where I stay.... I have over the past 5 years or so. had many job changes. At the moment I am at home, but now of course financial worries are big..................My confidence is a bit low......I find I need to go with the flow more at work.and be more resilient . I wish I could do this....

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I really agree with the comments here about the importance of work and I really feel for you LouiseMary, especially with the recession and the way it's so much harder now to find work opportunities than it was in the 1970s when I left school with NO qualifications and walked straight off the street and into a well paid clerical job! How times have changed. Can you get any careers advice? Obviously I don't know whether you have qualifications and why you cahnge jobs, but maybe you are constantly in jobs where you are bored or feel you don't fit? Try to tease that out, work out why you are leaving and what might make you want to stay in a job. Maybe you can dream or try the life planning where you think what you would be doing in a job if you could do anything you wanted, then work out what you'd have to do to get to the position where you might get the job, then break those things down into tasks. It can feel impossible, but if you let yourself dream and imagine without thinking whether it's realistic or possible you may find that actually it IS possible. If you don't know what you ight want to do then careers guidance or counselling might be options. Hope that helps,

[ToniaMarie35]

Sometimes work can be a good distraction and of course getting paid doesn't hurt, but here lately I don't want to go anymore...I have have lost my immune system and have had an injury there, sometimes I think I'm jinxed or that this job is not for me and right now I'm on easeback again and having a hard time between my feet,back,stomach and mind!!!! I have been missing alot of time lately, have had problems with workers which left me owing alot of money out, which is even more depressing. I don't have enough good income weeks or hours for ei yet, need the propers physio which has almost ran out again, then my body has to start over again....it's like moving forward then going backwards....but it's not like I don't try to help myself and get myself better, I don't know what it's like to be really happy anymore and I don't even know myself. I am in counseling again, which can be good at times, take walks is is always good and trying to get off reg meds which always cause bad side affects. I'm thinking of school next year, I have been doing the same thing for too long and it has ruined my health in my opinion, and planning on checking into career counselling..hope this helps somehow and thanks for reading and listening...