anyone here unable to work?

[emily67]

hi.

is anyone here unable to work for 1 reason or another

i'm duel diagnosed, and because of that i am unable to work.

how do you cope with knowing that fact?

not that i had something in mind, anyway. but knowing i can't work like "normal", everyday people does feel horrible

[erin0008]

I haven't had a job in 2 years. This subject has been causing a lot of stress in my family recently. Some of my family members have been insisting I get a job - that it will help me feel better.

I know that keeping myself busy helps, but I have very little interest in working. I actually don't want to do anything, but I know that's my depression talking.

I've had jobs in the past, but I always end up quitting or getting fired because I just stop going to work. I get stuck in my depression and stop leaving the house.

Is it that I CAN'T work, or WON'T work? Either way, I feel guilty, embarrassed, and singled out. The fact is, I'm NOT coping with it.

[deedeec]

I'm probably a lot older than you but I had to give up my nursing job when I was42. It was the hardest thing to except. It is even still. How old are you? Do you have a family to care for.

[Kaliska]

I never truly had a job. My mom covered my expenses by saying she was paying me through her business to repaint apartments. Sometimes I did it. Sometimes I was too tired and stressed to do anything. It came out to something like $9000/year which qualified me for everything low income. When I got married we switched over to relying on my husband's income with occasionally use of a credit card my mom paid and eventually no funds from her. I probably will never have a job. I tried 4 different college degrees and just kept running into the same problems so I decided that was not going to get me anywhere. Due to recent events I can't do any of they fully physical jobs I would have gone ahead and taken in the past. The whole "you *have* to attend college to have a good job and get anywhere" really screwed me. If I had dove straight into working at horse stables (I ran our horse stable from 12 years old) or went a trade school for aspects of livestock care I would probably have accomplished a real job and never gotten in to this bad health. Maybe not... but I have to wonder...