Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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Employment with anxiety/panic

Garnet_Clover
Garnet_Clover

I feel i made enough progress to enter back into the workforce. This time working as a independent contractor. I'm set to renew my licenses in june. Very nervous but i think i should be fine. I have researched the best type of careers for anxiety sufferers. Low stressful jobs, writer, counselor , dental hygienist  are some of them. Can anyone share what career/job you are in and how or what you are doing  to not let anxiety come between your work? 

arfie
arfie
I'm currently retired from a hodge podge career, but my most stable work period was contracting CAD (Computer Aided Drafting) and working mostly from home from 1986 to 1992. The need to drum up new business sent my social anxiety through the roof, but during the periods where work was coming in steady I was able to balance my therapy, work and family needs with quasi elegant style.

Work and mental illness are, indeed, a tough balance to achieve and an even tougher balance to maintain.
sidelined_thoughts
sidelined_thoughts
Would it be perhaps best to choose the type of job you would absolutely love and then go from there? In other words, perhaps interning or a lesser position with the growth potential. I'm not sure many low-stress jobs exist anymore, but your anxiety can always be improved. Much luck!
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