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Anxiety at Work
Is anxiety considered a disability? Will my employer have to let me work from home if I have panic attacks at work? Would that be considered a reasonable accommodation of my disorder? I could easily do the work remotely, but the company has a policy of not allowing remote workers. Who would I need to talk to to get documentation supporting the existence of my condition? Would a regular doctor do or does it have to be a psychiatrist or psychologist? I would only need this if it became a legal matter because everyone at me company knows about my problems and has seen me having a panic attack.
Read answer →Feeling Changed
I have started to feel paranoia a lot of the time. It has gotten gradually worse over the past year or 18 months. It basically started about when I was graduating from college and it has just been getting worse, but only very gradually worse so it’s not always noticeably different. But when I compare how I am today to how I was a year ago, I can see that I have changed a lot. It is similar to in the past when I have smoked pot. I never really liked it because I always had this underlying tension and worry about everything. That is what I am sort of like all the time now. I always think the worst possible thing is going to happen and even when I am not thinking about this I have this under tension like I my muscles are all tensed up for no reason and I am jumpy. Do I have anxiety? Do I need to take antidepressants?
Read answer →PTSD
I have avoidance, flashbacks and disassociation along with a lot of stress and psychosomatic problems (headaches, pains in my flank etc.) that my doctors say there are no physical reasons for, so they are most probably stress caused (I have a prescription for xanax that I thankfully never filled). I was the victim of an armed robbery 6 months ago and I believe this is the reason why I have all of these symptoms. Now I am pregnant, unexpectedly (which is why I am glad I didn’t use the Xanax). I do not have money for any type of counseling at the moment (I work as a cashier in a gas station). I am very worried that the stress and PTSD symptoms I am having will have a negative affect on my developing baby. Is this the case? Can you recommend ways that I can minimize the impact, on my own?
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