Returning To Work

[fretty freda]

I HAVE HAD A CHAT WITH MY BOSS TODAY ABOUT RETURNING TO WORK PART TIME I AM VERY SCARED I HAVE GENERAL ANXIETY AND PANIC AND DEPRESSION I KNOW ON THE DAYS LEADING UP TO MY RETURN ILL GO TO PIECES I HAVE BEEN OFF WORK FOR 5 WEEKS NOW AND I AM CONCERNED THAT THINGS WILL FEEL STRANGE AND ILL BE SLOW AT MY JOB OR FORGOT WHAT TO DO OR PEOPLE WILL NOTICE I AM NOT MYSELF I NEED YOUR SUPPORT GUYS I AM ANXIOUS ALREADY AND I MITE NOT BE GOING BACK THIS WEEK FOR CERTAIN YET

THANKS FOR READING THIS :shades:

[jane37]

your get there just take it slow.your doing great to return to work .1 step forward x:)

[fretty freda]

Thanks Jane Hope I Get More Than 1 Reply Some People Get 10000 Not Being Gready Or Anything I Appriciate Your Comments But Wud Like Lots Of Opinions Thanks Again

[bubblygirl]

For me getting back into work has always been the scariest bit for me. never actually thought id do it after being out of work for a year but i did go back to work part time last april and i felt amazing for doing it. im not working right now as you know we have ups and downs jus dnt feel quite strong enough yet but i know i will. theres nothing i can say to make u feel better except i know how u feel ur not alone. but we have more strength than we realise im sure u will do great. good luck

Sarah x

[angiebaby]

Hi there, i am very scared too!
I should go back on the 1st November, i know that the doc will want to sign me off again for another 1 or 2 months, but i will not get any money to pay the mortgage so i have no choice but go back. I am convinced that i will walk in, go funny and have to walk back out. I have a very stressful job, nursing in a gp surgery and i have been off for the past 5 months. I think, looking back now, i was doing well up until 6 weeks ago when my dad died suddenly in my arms, so now i am ten times worse than i was before!!
So we are in the same boat really, i have PTSD, panic and anxiety, i do not take any meds at all, i see a counsellor for CBT but i don't think it is helping yet.
I know that this hasn't helped you or answered you at all, but i just wanted to let you know that you are not alone in this and i am feeling scared now just thinking about going back.x

[fretty freda]

thanks bubbly i appriciate that and i love your quote dont look were you fall but were you slipped take care

[fretty freda]

angie
I

have a very similar job to you lets just say its in a surgery too not a gp one thow and i know what surgeries are like especially NHS ones the word starts with a big S for stressful ,
so sorry to hear about your dad and thanks for your kind words of support hope you get on ok WE CAN DO IT i know we can weve spent half our lives there

GOODLUCK

[jesterx]

don't stress about it. i know its silly but I think the best way for you to go back to work is to worm you way back in. by that I mean start off by one or two hours a day...then go to 4 or 5 hours....right up to a full day

then it wont be more of a shock for you. see how you go...good luck.

[banana]

I was off work for six weeks due to having a panic attack in the night. Luckily my company is really good and I have for the past three weeks just done two days a week and will then work up to 3 then 4 but only doing part-time hours, I appreciate you may need to do more due to having bills etc to pay but you need to get used to a whole new routine of working again and being somewhere at a set time.

Hope it all goes well:yesyes:

Banana

[chucklehound]

I started working last week after stopping work 8 years ago when I first got agoraphobia and I was amazed at how easier it was than what I thought it would be. I thought i would panic and run out but although I've felt my anxiety rising I've stuck with it and I feel better for doing so.
I hope you get on ok (I'm sure you will):yesyes:

[angiebaby]

I would love to be able to drop my hours/days etc, but unfortunately this is not possible as clients need me to be there and due to the job that i do i have to do what i am employed to do. I know this is a great shame and i donot relish the fact of going back at all. Since my problems started three years ago, that's when my PTSD developed, i have thought of leaving and have been looking for another job, but no luck. But now this has happened, my dad, i have got much worse and i seem to have developed a very TICKLED stomach, anything can set me off, even something in a magazine or on tv, so how i'm gonna cope with blood and guts again i don't know, lol.
I seem to have got it in my head that i have turned into someone who will pass out, a big fear of mine, if i see blood or injury, i get this terrible surge, as if i am expecting it to happen. I know this is silly and it is just something that has latched onto my brain from something i have seen, heard and read.
I am still looking for another job, lol.x