I have suffered from anxiety and depression all my life. The symptoms come across as OCD, ADD, and insomnia, which all look to outsiders like I’m a raging, emotional control freak, even tho I am a very loving, intelligent, strong, capable, intrepid person.
I struggle with social situations, but when I’m in a job I love, I’m very capable. Often there’s “this I-don’t-know-about-her” perception about me and I get overlooked or taken advantage of.
Either way, I struggle to be accepted, understood and ultimately, loved. In my last job I was promoted three times in the first 10 years because I was in a supportive atmoshere.
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