Can drinking cause anxiety?
So this summer, I lost my job and this was an extreme setback to me. I gave up on close to everything. I drank probably 3 times a week aLOT of alcohol. I decided I’m done. I feel awful and I’m trying to get back to where I am. But I’ve noticed lately I just have the most horrific anxiety, like it’s hard to do anything because I’m so anxious. Could this be from the binge drink marathon I had this summer? I stopped drinking completely as of Saturday night. I probably won’t drink for the next few months just because I’m sick of feeling like this.
I don´t have a job because I have bad social anxiety. I am 21. My parents see me as a failure. Any advice what I should do?
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Can anxiety/stress cause me to keep biting my tongue?
Yes, it can. Stress and anxiety make us do things that we don’t even realize we are doing sometimes. I happen to bite the insides of my cheeks when I’m stressed out or anxious. But when removed from situations, they heal up nicely and I don’t seem to have any problems.I was diagnosed with a generalized anxiety disorder, a panic disorder, and PTSD after I graduated nursing school and took my boards. During my time in school, my mom and my grandfather were re-diagnosed with colo-rectal cancer during my first 8 weeks. So not only was I in nursing school, I had 2 family members to care for. The stress and pressure of everything got to be so much and so intense, I was having panic attacks and I was blacking out. I blacked out during 2 tests and shut my computer off, my instructor was convinced I was cheating. So I dropped out before I failed out. I was in my 2nd year, in March. I could smell graduation. But I couldn’t risk hurting a patient in clinical. I then went to counseling and the blackouts stopped. I went to the LPN program in May, had no problems. But I could take my tests alone because I had proper documentation for test anxiety. I was supposed to go back to the RN program and pick up where I left off, but my mom took a turn for the worst.I still get horrible panic attacks. Gut wrenching, I want to curl up in the fetal position and never see or speak to anyone again horrible panic attacks. Stress/anxiety makes me bite the inside of my cheeks. But I LOVE my job as a nurse, I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I just have to use coping skills when life gets crazy, and I use guided meditation on a regular basis to help my brain not “run in circles” and actually shut off at night so I can sleep. I hope you have a good doctor to work with if your stress/anxiety is too bad. If not, I hope you can find one. Best of luck to you!
How can I quit my job as its causing me anxiety and depression and sign on at the job centre without being sanctioned for 26 weeks?
Find another job now. Why wait until you’re in trouble?
What are good jobs for people with anxiety and depression.?
clothing repairs, cooking, ironing, silver polishing, trading on an internet auction site, proof reading for foreign language web sites and publishers of trade / product catalogues, dog or cat sitting, tropical fish breeding, therapeutic massage (yes - i am serious), dog grooming, book binding, etc. get someone to assist you to get in touch with organisations who assist people with your challenges into work.
Jobs for people with severe social anxiety?
I'm not a psychologist and I seldom pretend to be one, but I do know a little about not always wanting to be around a lot of people and can maybe offer a couple of possible employment possibilities. You might want to look for jobs that require independence and rely on your knowledge and training. First of all, what do you like to do? You're young, so now is the time to evaluate what interests you and you have an aptitude for so you don't get stuck with a job that you hate, though Americans are changing careers much more frequently than our parents or grandparents did. But if you just want to find something until you can get on with the rest of your life, then you may need to look in some areas and avoid others. The two that come immediately to mind are manufacturing and agriculture. A lot of manufacturing jobs are in noisy environments and don't require hardly any interaction with others. Product assembly, maintenance, and line work are all important, but often boring jobs, and you know what a lot of agricultural jobs entail - work that is thankless, often dirty, almost always in uncomfortable temperatures, physically demanding, and absolutely vital. Maybe something more cerebral, like researcher, technical writer, or IT. Drafting, accounting, graphic design, and website development are all possibilities. Some of the building trades, such as electrician and painter are often done alone or in a small group. Rough carpenters spend a lot of time working in difficult conditions and in noisy environments with time constraints so the ability to focus on the task at hand is a big plus. Heavy equipment operators spend almost all of their time alone with their machines and usually get paid well, too. Truck drivers are alone even more than folks that run bulldozers, and you'd be away from mom, too. The economy has been picking up and they are always looking for young people to learn the trades and do the dirty work around a construction site. Shyness could be seen as a virtue and be used as a plus to get you the job. It's a lot easier to learn when you're listening, not talking. Good luck, with a little reflection and research I think you'll find a place where you're comfortable. You're on your own with your mom, though. Patience is probably a good idea with her, too.
How do people with severe social anxiety manage a job?
The internet can be a scary place to work on overcoming shyness. You tend to spend a lot of time reading horrible advice from people who haven’t actually dealt with shyness or social anxiety at all. This means a lot of “just get over it” and having your situation compared to somebody else’s. Shyness doesn’t work that way. The “just get over it” mentality massive compounds the issue (training the lower levels of your brain that you actually SHOULD be shy) and timeframes for dealing with shyness vary pretty widely.After a decade of dealing with social anxiety and trying everything from medication, reading every book under the sun and even solo travelling around the world to try and break out of my shell I’ve finally figured out what it takes. And honestly it could have been done in a few weeks.Everyone is, of course, different. And we all experience different levels of shyness or social anxiety. But when you come right down to everyone is dealing with the same learned behavioural problem with the same root cause and same root cure.Learned experience has caused it. Whether you were 5 or 35 the lower levels of your brain has learned to fear social situations. And the answer is re-training this lower level of your brain in a controlled way (because just throwing yourself into the deep end reinforces the problem in the long run). In theory, I learned that a long time ago. Putting it into practice was another story. I know how easy it is to get the feeling nobody else is going through the same thing as you are but I promise you at the root it’s all the same thing. I spent years hiding away in my room watching TV and playing games because I was easier than going out and facing people as much as I really wanted to. Watching others lead lives I wish I had but never understanding how they managed to talk to people so easily.I’m not normally one to suggest self-help books. Partly because I’m a guy and partly because I’ve read a load of them and most don’t actually have anything you can use in the real world. I did find the thing which finally turned my life around (and a way you can download the full audiobook for free): Shy to Social Free Audio Book and Community
Fear/anxiety before going off to work?
I love my job and fear actually that I could loose it. My problem is that I'm terribly stressed out before I go to work (a busy emergency department). It even starts a day in advance. I get depressed and frightfull. My mind becomes blank. I like my work when I'm taking care of patients, and I have no problems with the medical and disease related conditions of the patients. I am just scarred of being amongst co-workers (though most of them are really pleasant), supervisors and so many people. Having have to talk with them when it's not busy about banale things (in my opinion) just stresses me out. I don't want to talk to anybody and would prefer to just be myself doing my job. The noise and the fear that I could be critized, make a mistake etc. What could be a reason for such a irrational fear/anxiety?