Difficulty at work?

[MeowsePad]

Have you ever noticed that your anxiety interferes with your ability to do your job?


I know that I often get quite anxious at work, and I can't think clearly at times. Sometimes, I do things incorrectly or just not as well as I could have because of my anxiety.

 

[Aree Wongwanlee]

This is a very real problem for me when I was still working for a salary. The very first worry is whether I would get paid at all. This happens when I start in a new school. It's quite normal for the first month's salary to be a bit late. Nevertheless, I still worry when the end of the month passes by and I still don't get paid. The other recurring worry has to do with my colleagues. I am not that good at getting on with other people. I normally start off by keeping to myself. Then I realize that, by keeping to myself, I may come across as being snobbish. So I start to fraternalize. After a while, I worry whether I have been too social.

 

[John Snort]

Anxiety did interfere with my work when I still worked as a creative. Before submitting completed work, I'd always be wondering, will what I've done be good enough, would the client demand more? As payment was made only after the client said s/he was satisfied with the work done, each new project made me ever more anxious than the previous one. The unwillingness to take risks sort of crippled my creativity.

 

[misszerable]

A lot of times, I find that I am also quite irritable when I am anxious which is not a good situation to be when you have to deal with many people in day's work. I once received a negative citation because of a complaint from a fellow employee who reported that I spoke to him in a disrespectful and unprofessional way. I've always treated co-workers fairly and I couldn't even remember raising my voice at anyone so I was taken aback by the complaint. I guess that's the price to pay for coming to the office with a mental and emotional baggage and forgetting to leave your home worries at home.

 

[pwarbi]

I actually ended up having to quit my job a few years ago due to anxiety and depression and so I know exactly how that feels. While a lot of people say the best thing to help cure anxiety is to carry on doing what you're doing and in effect try and work your way out of it, but sometimes doing that can actually make things worse as in my case. If you are able to carry on your job then that is obviously the best way to try and help yourself, but sometimes things do get too much and if that happens there's no point being stubborn and hanging on in there as that makes things ten times worse.


Sometimes giving up on something isn't giving up at all, it's just a way of making time for other more important things, and there's no point struggling with a job, when it's affecting your health as your health must always be the main priority in whatever you do in life.

 

[Panic57]

Yes, I find that i rarely finish projects completely. It's not deliberate but my mind is bouncing around all the things I need to get done that I don't finish one project before jumping to the next. It makes finished anything take so much longer because I'm not focusing on finishing one project. It also makes me a bit scattered brained so that I forget things on top of it. I never fail to find things I could add or complete after or loose ends that I need to tie up. It's frustrating not to work efficiently.

 

[sidney]

Oh that happens to me quite a lot too, and I really can't concentrate on my work no matter how hard I try to. The thing that's making me anxious just seems to dominate and occupy my mind, until it subsides on it's own. When my anxiety is great, I am not productive at all.

 

[AF1121]

Unfortunately, I have. My job before my current one had a flat-out psychotic and sadistic boss who yelled, belittled, and humiliated employees over every tiny detail. He hated me in particular, for no apparent reason, even though I tried my best despite how bad it was making my anxiety. Finally I was let go with no discussion of any kind, just dropped from the schedule without a word. I hate the guy and wish he were dead, honestly. Every few months, I go on my city's CL rants and raves and post his full name, the name and address of the business, and all the details of how horrible he is. He needs to be called out for it, and hopefully it'll prevent it from happening to anyone else. Sadly some employers treat their employees this horribly and never seem to face any consequences for it.

 

[kelden]

Yes. I have experience difficult moments when at work. Specially doing manual work, is really frustrating to deal with when you perform wrong and then be yelled at it. It seems that I'm not suited for anything that doesn't involve be in front of a computer.

 

[LoyalServant]

I don't think it interferes directly with my work but it influences the social interactions I have with my colleagues. I always feel so nervous when I am around a group of co-workers. I keep thinking that they are all somehow making fun of me and that when I leave the room they gossip about me. Obviously, this is a classic case of anxiety since they probably have more interesting topics than to gossip against me.


I wish I could turn off that voice in my head constantly telling me that people are mocking me!

 

[T2R43]

I have hard moments being a freelance writer because once you complete a client request, you then have to wait to see if the work you've presented is going to be accepted which can be stressful. I get nervous having to do rewrites, like I'm doing a bad job or letting someone down. So, work can be a major stressor for me.