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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is your life limited by anxiety and depression?

SAMPAGUITA
SAMPAGUITA
hi. apparently im depressed and im neglecting all the things that i should be doing like exercise. i am not in the mood to do anything. i keep on watching the interview of rhonda byrne (author of the secret) on oprah.i am trying to cheer myself up but all i wanna do is to sleep all day. the only thing that i did which is positive was to take a bath. i gave up on a career because of anxiety issues. i just cant do it. i also have memory problems and sometimes i keep on checking the things that im doing. i want to have a business because i believe that it is better.rather than working with people and working with a boss. the only reason why i want to take up culinary arts was, i think its the only thing that i could do. cooking is somewhat easy for me. i am not crazy over it but i think it is something that i could do. though i'm torn if im going to enroll in a school with on the job training. that way i will be able to learn more. but stress. i'm not very good at stress. i know the kitchen is stressful. but there is an option to enroll in a school without the on the job training. if i feel like i choose this it wil be limited. but i have anxiety and stress issues. my father said i am fragile. =( which should i choose? did u ever feel ur life or the things that you could do is limited because of depression and anxiety?
bridgie101
bridgie101
What you do next isn't your be all or end all career. You can try something small, and use it to learn how to handle being at work, how to handle being with people. A place where the work itself isn't hard, so you don't have to have attacks from getting things wrong too much (always will get some things wrong, but hopefully nothing too major.)

I think the cooking course sounds great. But you will have to make a promise to stick it out no matter how bad the anxiety gets. Otherwise don't start. when I say that I don't mean 'ask yourself if your'e really keen'. No. I mean just make the promise: no matter how awful it is or how much I might hate it some days, I will NOT quit this thing, I will complete it.' If you're anything like me with the anxiety, you have to make that promise and then you have to force yourself to keep it no matter what, because I know my mind will spend all day trying to figure out ways of avoiding doing it if I give it half a chance.
koolman
koolman
Accept the stress of the on-the-job training. That way, you'll earn while you learn, and build up an inner resolve, tolerance, toughness. You're going to have to deal with stress anyway upon completing a culinary arts degree and be thrown to the wolves in a work environment, so why not be paid as you go and build up a tolerance? What is the point of all thatexpensive education if not to make money? And where there is money, there is stress. If you want money, you're going to have to deal with a certain amount of stress. There's no getting around this fact.
koolman
koolman
Stress can be a good thing, in that it keeps life interesting, teaches one how to be fast and efficient, multitask.
rskb3
rskb3
Yes, I feel that anxiety and depression has limited my ability to work. I graduated from a vocational college last year and still do not have a job, I hope to one day change this. I think if I did work I would feel more in control of my life. I hope that if you do decide to become a chef that you enjoy it.