hey mac, what about when there is not bad depression? if you worked from home, you could be productive then. i find that keeping busy helps me with depression, of course i am on med, too. i worked at walmart for a little while part of one yr. when i homeschooled my youngest, and believe me, she is slaving! you won't be on that couch or bed forever, after you heal. so, take the time you need now, and do the rest when you're better.

I think jobs has a lot to do with our ptsd. Where can we find a place that pays the bills, where yu can feel, safe and comfortable, where you can find job satisfaction.

Seriously considering changing jobs as work environment is a cesspool of industrial stress and low moral for all. I was always very hard worker up till factory wore me out like an old machine. Am on modified job duties and if I stay will be stuck on the job forever, (glorified janitor), do get a break as back up for two QA people in my department sometimes

Still can't go back due to PTSD, not to mention the stress of the gossip and rumors from my recent traumas, troubles with hubs, and resentment for being modified/light duty employee by the full duty people.

Caught between the pay cheques/benefits which are good or changing careers as always was career oriented. PTSD indecision has always been worst enemy, that and the subconsious "always have to suffer some how just put up with it mentality" which I am trying to conquer.

Really ready for a change, really want job satifaction and time for my farm,
our hours are brutal especially this time of year. Turkey plant 6% of world's meat market comes from our plant. Thanksgiving and Christmas are brutal
9-7pm even 8 at time and weekends to boot.

Too much when a 10 min walk right now kills me physically and on job I have to be on feet and walk constantly.

Hubs can't handle bills alone and my time running out money wise so have to s*** or get off the pot.

Jobs are especially interesting. I need a second job to pay my bills, but I'm still in school, so it has to be part-time. The hard part is, because of PTSD, I can't work retail because I was doing that during my time of Hell, and I can't bring myself to work it again. So far, the only job I can handle with any stability is groundskeeping, which is absolutely great i.e. very little stress at all, but pays beans. I gotta figure something out before Jan. 1 as that is when I have to start paying my own health insurance.:crybaby:Why does adult life have to be so hard?

we all seem to have a lot in common concerning working. i've not worked for 17mths now, because of ptsd, but have always felt the pressure from me to work, even though if i'm honest i wasn't capable of. i've kinda fallen into the trap of setting a loose time frame to get back into work, reaching that time, not working, and then failing, tormenting myself with what i thought at the time was a realsitic time frame eg, 3-4months and with each failure as time goes on just re-emphases in me that i've failed, that i should be handling things better and should just be getting on with it. i just want to, need to work, only my ptsd instincts get in the way of it, the two just don't match up. It's so frustrating.

Frustrating it is. NO CALLS still. Did I say frustrating? Oh well. My gymnastics classes that I teach is expanding. I teach 12 hours a week, about 8 classes. It keeps life interesting for now. Although sometimes, I just want to :hit-boss: some of the kids! Some kids have no respect!!

A simple and effective method to solve this, is find something that everyone needs that can be accomplished online, and establish an online business that supports PTSD sufferers... For example, a site that requires each person to contribute but works on a reward type scheme, where if one person puts in twice as much time as another, they get twice as much of the profit as the other.

Find the idea that is viable, and I can certainly help establish it.