♥ First of all, thank you Rae for your post! I love you! ♥
Second of all, the point of this post: Holding Down a Job. It is well known among the mental health professionals and BPD sufferers that Borderlines cannot hold down a regular job. I'm honestly not sure of the statistics but mood swings, anxiety attacks, bouts of psychosis, and too many "mental health days" often get people let go- or they quit for arbitrary reasons. "The boss looked at me weird," "I think my coworkers don't like me," "I'm too depressed to go in and work every day," and so on.
In my case, I work from home, and for my father. And YES, it's a Real Job, and Hard Work- I work in pricing, web content, blogging, some SEO (amateurish but effective as of yet), and so on. I get paid pretty well for someone who lives at home and never goes out. But if it weren't for my boss being my dad, I would have long since been fired.
x I work strange hours; sometimes less than the minimum, sometimes double it.
x I don't always do my work on time.
x I take too many mental health days.
x I don't go into the office (my dad always brought home my paycheck until we started direct deposit last week).
So my point is, yes, it can be hard to hold a stable job- hence why I never tried to get another job. Also I have a fear of people but that's a different post.
Eden.
Second of all, the point of this post: Holding Down a Job. It is well known among the mental health professionals and BPD sufferers that Borderlines cannot hold down a regular job. I'm honestly not sure of the statistics but mood swings, anxiety attacks, bouts of psychosis, and too many "mental health days" often get people let go- or they quit for arbitrary reasons. "The boss looked at me weird," "I think my coworkers don't like me," "I'm too depressed to go in and work every day," and so on.
In my case, I work from home, and for my father. And YES, it's a Real Job, and Hard Work- I work in pricing, web content, blogging, some SEO (amateurish but effective as of yet), and so on. I get paid pretty well for someone who lives at home and never goes out. But if it weren't for my boss being my dad, I would have long since been fired.
x I work strange hours; sometimes less than the minimum, sometimes double it.
x I don't always do my work on time.
x I take too many mental health days.
x I don't go into the office (my dad always brought home my paycheck until we started direct deposit last week).
So my point is, yes, it can be hard to hold a stable job- hence why I never tried to get another job. Also I have a fear of people but that's a different post.
Eden.
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