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Afraid to go to work
My anxiety attacks always happen at my job. I called in today but I cannot keep doing this.
Nurse, the reason i suggested this was due to the complete post for help was connected to work. There must be some connection and some reference should be directed at this. If a persons job is eating them up i dont believe it can be ruled out as a possible cause for the anxiety.
Life, you have to understand how panic attacks, and chronic anxiety work. Just because someone has a panic attack at work doesn't mean the job is the problem. Alvaa is exhbiting the typical avoidant behavior one has after having a panic attack somewhere.
When a person has a panic attack, anywhere, they being to automatically associate that place with the panic, and start fearing that place, and if the anticipatory anxiety persists, they will begin to avoid that place, causing more reinforcement in the brain that there is something to fear. If he had had a panic attack in the library, or grocery store, it would be the same thing with those locations. Sometimes, people even associate PEOPLE, or TIMES of the day with panic, and fear THAT. For example, if someone had a panic attack at bedtime, they begin to become very anxious at that time of the day. It's conditioning.
The very worst thing he could do would be to leave his job. That would send a HUGE message to his brain that there WAS indeed something to fear. Then, most likely, he would experience the same kind of anxiety at a new job, or in a new profession. A person with panic attacks HAS to learn to fight that urge to flee a place when they have a panic attack. That's one way we send a message to our brains that there is nothing to fear from that place.
Now, obviously, it goes without saying that if someone absolutely hates their job,, or it has a VERY high stress rate, then those things can certainly attribute to the anxiety. I sincerely don't think that's the case here, as alvaa has struggled with panic for some time now. He's definitely on the right track.
IF he feels a career change would benefit him, that's another story, but it isn't something I would recommend taking on at this point, not until he works on this panic a bit more.
When a person has a panic attack, anywhere, they being to automatically associate that place with the panic, and start fearing that place, and if the anticipatory anxiety persists, they will begin to avoid that place, causing more reinforcement in the brain that there is something to fear. If he had had a panic attack in the library, or grocery store, it would be the same thing with those locations. Sometimes, people even associate PEOPLE, or TIMES of the day with panic, and fear THAT. For example, if someone had a panic attack at bedtime, they begin to become very anxious at that time of the day. It's conditioning.
The very worst thing he could do would be to leave his job. That would send a HUGE message to his brain that there WAS indeed something to fear. Then, most likely, he would experience the same kind of anxiety at a new job, or in a new profession. A person with panic attacks HAS to learn to fight that urge to flee a place when they have a panic attack. That's one way we send a message to our brains that there is nothing to fear from that place.
Now, obviously, it goes without saying that if someone absolutely hates their job,, or it has a VERY high stress rate, then those things can certainly attribute to the anxiety. I sincerely don't think that's the case here, as alvaa has struggled with panic for some time now. He's definitely on the right track.
IF he feels a career change would benefit him, that's another story, but it isn't something I would recommend taking on at this point, not until he works on this panic a bit more.
I think you should change your job besides the medication. The meds will work but it appears that you job is part of the problem and that isnt working. A person, in my opinion, should look forward to going to work.
Yes. I took it at around 7:00 this morning. I had bad anxiety at first, but at around 11:00 it began subsiding. I don't like the ugh feeling but it beats the anxious feeling.
Life360, I am a programmer in the IT Department.
Life360, I am a programmer in the IT Department.
Good for you!!! Celebrate each and every accomplishment! Are you finding the Klonopin heklped ease that initial anxiety?
Keep up the good work, and keep us posted!
Keep up the good work, and keep us posted!
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