Work stress and anxiety

Post Reply New Topic

So, I've been away for a long time. I'm not real good at the community thing, but I need to be, because I can't do this on my own, oddly enough.

I started seeing a new shrink a couple of weeks ago after I got to a very bad place 6 weeks ago.

The new shrink specialises in ASD patients, and after the first session confirmed my formal ASD dx from 2013.

Here's the thing though, I'm really struggling at work.

Late last year the small company I work for was acquired by a larger company. They're all on one side of the country and I'm on the other in a small office, and now all alone.

I have no formal qualifications and my anxiety about whether they're going to let me go in a few months is spiralling out of control, making my existing anxiety problems even worse.

It feels like the structures that I had in my job before we got acquired have been blown away in the acquisition; I'm expected to be productive and account for my time, and ask for help when I need it - like getting my head around the new company's processes - but I'm in a different time zone, and most of the time my emails go unanswered.

My wife is chronically ill, so we're a single income family, and if I lose this job, I literally don't know what I do, or how I'd find another job, particularly one that pays as well as this one.

I just don't know what to do.