Trying to work

[jdegraef]

I’ve been trying to find a job but every time I go in I start feeling tears building up for no reason and get all shaky. I get the feeling like I just want to go home and lay in bed. This has happened 3 times now and it got really bad once I started a new job a couple weeks ago but had to quit due to anxiety, any ideas on how I can deal with this and keep a job??

[peanutbuttercup]

The best advice I have ever heard that goes for everyone from CEO down to janitor is as follows: Fake it until you make it. That’s not being flippant. Act confident until you feel confident. And you will feel more confident and less anxious once you are more comfortable with your workplace. Once you are familiar with the job’s routine, it will become far easier. Picture the most confident person you know, in person or on TV and act like them until you get more confident. I would imagine you are less anxious now in places that you are familiar with.

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Hi, do you have a support system? I have the same issue and the night before my internship I was so full of anxiety I thought I wouldn’t make it. I made it but I still get anxiety. I’ve had so many anxiety attacks at jobs. Anxiety comes in waves, so you get one but it goes away. The best way to handle them is to ride it out and tell yourself it will go away. If you run away from anxiety it will get stronger. You will never be anxiety free, the key is feeling the fear and doing it anyway. By doing it anyway, you eventually conquer the anxiety.

[Indigojoe]

Hi

An interview is for YOU to decide if that company has what it takes to be able to use your talents and what you are trained to do at your highest capabilities.

YOU are not under the spotlight, they are.

THEY might NOT be the right place for you.

You can only come to any interview knowing who you are, and what your skills are.

IF you KNOW yourself and can rely on yourself to be honest about what you have been trained to do, { at any level }, then the interview is more about YOU interviewing them.

IF you take the advice of peanutbuttercup and lynnalice, when you go for your interview you will be ok and you will know that you are not alone in this. So it will be easier to actually walk in for the interview.

Do some work on finding out what your CORE beliefs are about yourself.

Are you actually able to do the job you are walking in for?

Take the rest of this week and weekend to honestly ask yourself, "what is REALLY going on here" write it down.

But keep interviewing.

Sometimes we just have to get a job that is " good enough" for now and not go for the "golden job", to gain experience, so we can go for the next one.

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I understand what you mean,i have had the same job for 15 years but ive no idea how i do it.im scared of getting a panic attack or dizziness etc its like life is too scary i want to run home and go to bed