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work anxiety.

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material · 17/11/2024 12:50

I,m beginning to feel like there is somthing wrong with me.

Does anyone get this overwhelming anxiety going to work even if you know the actual work is not too bad.?

I,ve had this literally my whole working life (50yrs old now) and cant seem to shake it off.

Since having a 25 yr career, to ending that through covid then taking on several jobs unrelated to what I did before and leaving them after 6-7 months.

I,m currently at that stage again after working full-time for 7 months and wanting to leave due to the job itself being quite difficult.

I have 3 kids, a house to run and hubby works full-time too.

Every Sunday night I sit here dreading the week ahead, irritable and feeling overwhelmed by everything.

I dont even know what the answer is now as I know I cant just sit at home and not work. My 2 older kids help as much as they can but I just cant shake off this overwhelm. Cant take time of work as the company I work for dont offer sick pay.

Mabey its time to look for another job, but the thought of it gives me the fear.

Working for myself would be ideal. Make my own hours and give me more time to concentrate on myself and family.

Thanks for reading so far.

OP posts:
Kaleidoscopic101 · 17/11/2024 14:02

Some people just are built for self employment. Once they go self employed they never look back and wonder how they coped so long employed. This might be you? Others just can't abide the idea and must be PAYE. Life too short to struggle with this...sounds like some sort of change is needed and might need to be a bit brave to get to a place you need.

notprincehamlet · 17/11/2024 14:13

Does anyone get this overwhelming anxiety going to work even if you know the actual work is not too bad.?
Yep. I work M-F. The dread sets in on Saturday evening and starts to lift on Thursday evening. If I have a week's leave I'm dreading returning to work from Thursday. Has been the same with every job I've had and was the same with school (but not uni or when I was freelance).

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