mentally challenged and you still have to work
By wongchoiyee
@wongchoiyee (7413)
Malaysia
November 29, 2012 8:26am CST
What would you do? I would still work but I will always take leave and refresh myself, after that continue working. I have depression and I take medication everyday, someday can be very frustrating and makes you want to stay at home, but some day you are happy and energetic wants to go to work. These symptoms make me always work on a flexible schedule, which I come to work 3 times a week, sometime everyday and sometime I only work once in a month. I know it is not normal but my mental condition keep pulling me back from working. What are you will doing if you have mental illness and still have to pull yourself to work?
4 responses
@marguicha (222890)
• Chile
29 Nov 12
I know many people with endogen depression or bipolarity, yet they work and haved their meds. All of them have to be checked from time to time as the meds doses sometimes have to be changed. But if I were you, I would not use the words "mentally challenged". We all have illness of all sorts, but that does not have to define us. When you look at yourself as a person and not as a mental patient, you will deal with your life more easily.
@wongchoiyee (7413)
• Malaysia
29 Nov 12
hi marguicha,
I really hope I can do that. Someday, mother will remind me as a depression person and ask me to eat meds.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1 Dec 12
I like working with people; but I'm too weird-looking & lu$ty, and they get weirded-out.
And if I had decided to 'take a break' whenever I felt like it, I would've gotten fired even faster!
@sunita64 (6469)
• India
29 Nov 12
I will start doing meditation for keeping myself free of mental illness.Each and everyone of us do not want to goto job regularly so if you think you have mental illness I feel that is not right. I do not have mental illness but still I have to pull myself to work. As earning is necessary for living a good life.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
1 Dec 12
I do suffer from some degree of depression, but I am not on medication for the depression that I've had to deal with throughout my life. With that said, I do know that for me, I actually tend to suffer less from the depression symptoms when I have something that I have to do on a regular basis.
I've been staying at home with my children for the last several years and I've found that my depression symptoms have actually been stronger in staying at home than they were when I had a traditional job outside the house.
