
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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I've only been reading and on here for almost a week. Seems a lot of you work. HOW??????????? I was put on social security disability 3 years ago for panic disorder and anxiety. Before that I worked for 17 years in Human Resources as a systems database administrator and web designer. I know that I could NEVER do that again. It takes way too much focus and concentration. Even with meds, I know I still have limitations to those things.
So just curious. How many here are on disability for panic disorder and anxiety? Am I the lone ranger?
And I do mean for those two things............. not for other disorders......... just the combination of those two.
So just curious. How many here are on disability for panic disorder and anxiety? Am I the lone ranger?
And I do mean for those two things............. not for other disorders......... just the combination of those two.
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Every single day was a struggle. There were days when I litterally had to drag myself in and fought panic attacks all day long. How did I get through it?? I have no idea.
I am dreading getting another job because I know what it's going to be like. I have never heard of anyone being on disability for panic/anxiety. The way Ohio is, probably couldn't get it anyway.
I just can't imagine going in and working 9-5 every day. I couldn't do it. I opened my own business a year ago because I'm not one to sit around and collect a social security check for disability. The store is doing great, I loved it, but now I'm feeling "trapped"........... already.
Yes I'm still on disability, and I can make up to $600/month with no repercussions. This store was my "new journey", a new start. I thought I could do it. I'm learning very quickly after one year that I just can't.
But even if I sell my store, I will do other things, but things that I can do at my own pace. I can ebay, I can design websites, I can stage model homes by decorating, I make candy bouquets, I could even go into a flea market and sell things. But none of those things would "suffocate" me or make me feel "chained". It's the "chains" that are sending me into this wild panic attacks again. That and about a million other things.
But I KNOW without a doubt that I cannot work a full-time job, with other people, every day again. I come up for review for my disability in May. I come up for review every 3 years. Talk about anxiety! What if they tell me I can work? Yeah whatever............. I'll just end up sleeping in a box under a bridge overpass.
That life I once knew for all those years is long gone............... and I don't see how some of you do it. I WANT to do it. I even opened the store WANTING to do it. I'm my own boss. I do everything the way I want them done. No one to tell me what to do, how to do it, etc., and I'm still failing because I'm chained to that store. I need to be doing 100 things at once, when I want to do them and at my own pace. If I'm down from a panic attack, the kinds of things I'm hoping to do later, those are the kinds of things that can wait a few days. My store can't wait. I have to be there every day. If i have to close my store, there are no sales that day. If I don't make sales, there is not rent money.
All of this, every bit of it, is just totally ridiculous. I feel like Dorothy. I just want to click my heels together and go back to where I was. I don't know how I got here or what happened to me, but I want it fixed. I raised 2 kids by myself, was a rape victim, was a victim of child molestation, and a few other things. Yep, had therapy for those things and dealt with them all before this started. I got thru all that.............. it's not the past that paralyzes me, it's the PRESENT. I just can't make heads or tails out of it.......... and I can't make heads or tails out of how any of you can get up every day and go to an office and deal with the same people every day. But I envy you.
Luckily they like me and i will be going back mid december but am concerned at some point it will happen again.
Im a permanent residident alien in the US but not not a citizen yet so dont think i would be able to qaulify for disability.
Im not sure i can give you any answers to this.
Do you have anyone that could run store for you for a while untill you can get things back under control?.
Do you have a doctor and therapist and do you take meds to help?.
If you have family near by are they a good support network for you?, could you move in with them for a while whilst you get your buisiness started?.
GoodLuck To You And Take Care!
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Anyone feel free to mail me - i like giving advice where i can. xxx