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How do you all make ends meet?

jenflower
jenflower
Hi peeps,

I'm very frustrated at the moment. I have had a bad time the last few months and it has affected my work. I'm in sales, not to toot my own horn but I am actually quite good at my job. Problem is with the bad time I was going through it involved a lot of disassociation. It was almost like I checked out. I don't remember conversations, emails, meetings. Most of all my sales are down due to lack of ability.

My question for all of you is how do you make ends meet? My therapist keeps saying "you just have to work through".

What if it's not a choice and your brain betrays you and shuts off?

Any insight would be great I am so tired and stressed.

Jen
arfie
arfie
Wish I had greater wisdom than your therapist. Alas, I don't. I just keep on working through and somehow it all works out. Somehow. There sure are allot of years the numbers just don't add up. I shouldn't make it, but somehow I always do.

Hugs. Somehow I keep making it, but the stress can be killer.
Be easy on yourself.
MillaSofia
MillaSofia
I don't like your therapist. How do I make ends meet at this moment? I don't. I have found things like payday loans, pawn shops. Someone who tries to push me past my healthy capabilities is not a friend to me. I WILL make it somehow, maybe right now it's not in such a great manner becaue I am a bit of a mess. But that will change. Don't let people push you beyond your capabilities. How many things do you need? Sell some.
deleted_user
deleted_user
`just work through it' is pretty lousy advise when someone is overwhelmed.

like an `easy off' for the therapist.

myself, i am on disability, and work part-time doing horticulture/ landscaping. low-stress and the only clients i deal with in the day are the fauna, trees, and shrubs i'm planting. and we get along just fine. hehe

sorry you're struggling.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I can see how dissociating would throw you off your game making your sales pitch. It can throw me off my game in front of the classroom as a college teacher. Fortunately, I script my classes pretty thoroughly and use audio/video & internet in class so all doesn't rest on me every second. That's where I guess I differ some with your therapist's idea of "working through." I persevere, but I also work around obstacles creatively, too.

Is mixing it up possible for you at your work? After all, today's audiences and their attention spans need a good mix anyway. So I take advantage of that for their sake and for mine, and it works for me.
srbth
srbth
Unfortunatly, I couldn't make it and had to go on SSDI. I tried so hard to keep working because I loved my job, but I had to face the reality I just couldn't do it anymore.
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