Jobs for DP/DR sufferers
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I work in a pub, which you'd think would probably be the worst job for someone with DP. However I find that doing stuff that doesn't "feel right" with DP - in these case having to interact with strangers - actually helps more with my symptoms than something that I'd be drawn to.
I think however it's important to try and get a job that's as unrepetitive as possible. I used to work in a call centre saying the same goddam phrases and questions to people for hours on end, and I can tell you that when you finished you couldn't help but feel "zombified".
So I'd say that anything that's unrepetitive, is unlikely to aggravate your symptoms too much and, of course, doesn't involve flourescent lights (although I never personally had a roblem with those), should be a good idea.
I think however it's important to try and get a job that's as unrepetitive as possible. I used to work in a call centre saying the same goddam phrases and questions to people for hours on end, and I can tell you that when you finished you couldn't help but feel "zombified".
So I'd say that anything that's unrepetitive, is unlikely to aggravate your symptoms too much and, of course, doesn't involve flourescent lights (although I never personally had a roblem with those), should be a good idea.
I wish I worked in a bar, that sounds perfect! I'm a programmer and I work in a lovely flourescent lit office, staring at a pc screen all day. Interaction in our office is mostly over IM, and limited to questions about things I've answered a million times before. Around mid-afternoon my dp starts to kick in real bad, and clears up once i leave.
i know this is the opposite of what you asked, but i say avoid jobs where you have to sit in the same chair all day, interact very little with people, and where the potential for boredom can lead to self monitoring. and at the sake of sounding cliche, do something stimulating that you enjoy, if you're lucky enough to find it.
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i know this is the opposite of what you asked, but i say avoid jobs where you have to sit in the same chair all day, interact very little with people, and where the potential for boredom can lead to self monitoring. and at the sake of sounding cliche, do something stimulating that you enjoy, if you're lucky enough to find it.
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The best job I ever had was as a Career City Letter Carrier. It was one of those total life changing jobs because of the money and being in the Union. I am retired and still in the Union, pay dues and life insurance and Health benefits.
I loved the job b/cuz it had JUST the right amount of people contact, alone time, exercise, crazy fellow co-workers to make you laugh, a sense of pride to be doing something very diffcult in every season in all terrain, well you know the creed...nor rain sleet nor gloom of night..
It fit in with my sense of universal love when I would speak to a child, an elderly person, or pet a stray dog. And on Welfare check day and Social Security check days, it was extreme stress but I loved making mostly --haa--mostly everyone happy. There is so much mental to the job that people don't see. Had it not been a mental challenge I would have hated it.
Now after I have a surgery upcoming I will be finishing school and working on cars. Fellows who do this work seem to have the twist and sense of humor that I like to work around.
I loved the job b/cuz it had JUST the right amount of people contact, alone time, exercise, crazy fellow co-workers to make you laugh, a sense of pride to be doing something very diffcult in every season in all terrain, well you know the creed...nor rain sleet nor gloom of night..
It fit in with my sense of universal love when I would speak to a child, an elderly person, or pet a stray dog. And on Welfare check day and Social Security check days, it was extreme stress but I loved making mostly --haa--mostly everyone happy. There is so much mental to the job that people don't see. Had it not been a mental challenge I would have hated it.
Now after I have a surgery upcoming I will be finishing school and working on cars. Fellows who do this work seem to have the twist and sense of humor that I like to work around.
Finsihing school and getting a job woking on cars of course all depending on how well I tolerate symptoms at the time. The career I loved that I talked about b-4, I am on retirement from but it is non-work related disability retirement. The job didn't do it, it was depression and anxiety. So I try to keep hope alive on all this and not give up. I look back though and see there has been loss of many kinds in life due to these illnesses..that job, girlfriends who couldn't deal with me as I tried to live "normal"...blahh. I been alone a couple years and all in all I must say I needed a break. Until I'm ok w/me, I don't pt myself out there to be judged again for not measuring up. This post could go on that thread about underachieving as well.
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