• Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
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    16 days ago

    Same thing happened to me. I started going to therapy last year and got medication from a psychiatrist that mostly helps keep me from having constant panic attacks. Granted mine wasn’t just from my last job, but from a lifetime of harassment and just generally being treated like shit. I still remember breaking down cause I cut a frozen pizza not perfectly in half when I was a young teen. The other week I had a panic attack in front of my supervisor as he was explaining to me a policy I didn’t know about cause my brain was assured this was him holding back and not being able to fire me yet no matter how badly he wanted to. Those thoughts had no basis in reality cause I’m a good worker who goes out of his way to help others and keeps his head down (even got employee of the month), but anxiety doesn’t care. It thinks all that shit is fake and I only got it cause the panic attack made them feel bad.