Jobs have always felt too much for me

[BigCuddlyGorilla]

Hi all

Ds is still primary school age and I’m looking, after several years of being a SAHM, to dip my toe back in to the world of work by volunteering. I’ve always wanted to do it but now that I’m on the verge of starting a volunteering place I’m having my usual terrible anxiety.

I’ve always found jobs hard to cope with. There’s been a couple that have been alright but they’ve been low stress with v nice people. Any kind of work issues/ pressure/ office politics crap has always been too much. I’ve had a long history of anxiety and depression and in the last five years I’ve also been diagnosed with a visual syndrome and fibromyalgia which causes a lot of pain. Two of my relatives have died and I’ve had to go NC with my mother as I had a breakdown due to facing up to my childhood abuse in therapy.

I really want to be useful and feel like I’m contributing but I feel overwhelmed with the day to day let alone work as well.

Have a look at telephone befriending with the charity “silverline”. You make a weekly phone call ( at no cost to you) to a lonely older person.
I do this and really enjoy chatting to my “friend”, it’s a small step but
really makes a difference, to both of us!

I think maybe some posters don;t understand how emotionally and physically draining some things can be to people with fibro. Such as lots of caring / physical and emotional care. Sometimes we need the care, not to keep giving and giving- especially when we have families as well.