Staying in employment struggles

@FloraRoseworking with a mental illness can certainly have its challenges and I've found that freelancing, contracting and running my own business have provided opportunities to work closer to my own terms, so to speak. I have tried to create situations and environments I am comfortable to work in.

Being open & honest about my mental illness has made things easier too. That was hard and took some good therapy and family support to get to a point where I could talk openly about living with CPTSD.

If you can afford a psychologist then that can often be useful. I work on Internal Family Systems (IFS) with my therapist and this model suits me. To learn more about IFS there are lots of videos on YouTube and a great book "No Bad Parts" by Richard Schwartz.

Keep reaching out in these forums because there are a lot of helpful people here.

Good luck with it all.

Hi @FloraRose welcome to forums. great to have you with us here. I agree with @Boppa on wondering if you have supports to help you manage?

I have struggled with maintaining consistency with my casual employment. I have been using positive self talk, grounding techniques and using analogies to help me through.

We also have information on Mental illness & the workplace (sane.org) here.

@Blackbird11 i don’t have many supports unfortunately. I will have a look at the link you provided though