Disabled Job Placement-Already Having Anxiety.

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Since I left school, my therapist has gotten me to sign up for a state funded program to help disabled people find/train for jobs. I went to meet and join the 3 month waiting list yesterday and I'm already anxious about it.

How do I stop giving into the anxiety that makes me quit things? This is my last chance at something normal; my last chance at not staying with my parents and them taking care of me forever, as there's no way I'm joining school again.

My doctor said if I can't work she will try to apply disability for me but if I have that, I'll have to stay with my parents and I really want to be independent and not live with them in adulthood.

This program could also get me transportation as I cannot drive. What should I do to stop myself from letting my anxiety build to the point where I quit yet another good thing?

Posting reply because my post count had a 1 at the end. I hate 1 at the end of a number.

Why not keep telling yourself: "I want to be independent! I hate living with my parents!"

That was my mantra when I was 18 and getting jobs.

I hope you do well with your placement. You have lots of brains.

It sounds like you have an anxiety disorder.

If this happens to you frequently, then you should consider taking medication for it.

One of the reasons why I take medication is to tone down my anxiety to a bearable level.

Maybe look at it as something to try out...if it doesn't work out than disability is still an option. Also though there is help for housing for people on disability, so its not entirely true you'd have to remain living with parents...though probably for a few years since a lot of that housing has some waiting lists, but it is something one can work towards.

You can certainly live on your own on disability, but it's not a very nice way to live in the USA. The poverty issues are a horrible reality of disability in the USA, and if you can work at all it is always preferable. Surely if they (the disability job placement people) are aware of your anxiety issues, they can fine tune something that might help you to gain access to the workforce.

As another poster suggested there are medical treatments for anxiety that might help.

I used to be on benzos for a long time, but it was bordering on an addiction/dependence and the pills stopped working and began causing me rage episodes. This is because they aren't meant to be used long term. I can't take them anymore.

I take 1mg of Risperdal twice a day and 25mg of amatriptyline 2x a day, but the latter helps better with my chronic migraines and not so much with anxiety. Risperdal has some effect but I need a higher dose and my new doctor won't up it.