Nerves

[_John_]

I think there`d be something wrong if you WERE NOT anxious about starting a new job. being new always sucks a bit, but either its a good place and the people will help you out and it`ll all be sweet, or they are a pack of turds and ya better off outa there.

Chances are it`ll work out okay. Go get a really big glass of Coke and some chips and mellow out on the xbox.

Edited 13/12/10 08:45 AM by _John_

[IBOO57]

You can get natural calming tablets from the health food shops also.

My last job was shift work and sometimes it was hard to get to sleep at odd hours

and I tried some that I was recommended by a nurse (there shifts make it hard to sleep at odd hours also)

and they worked great.

being natural there was no side effects like feeling drowzy when you did have to get up.

reason im telling you is because these same tablets that help you sleep are also for anxiety.

I felt more relaxed on the days after I had used these to help me get to sleep also.

So talk to someone in a health food shop about a natural treatment and see how you go.

Other than that just go with the flow at your new job and before you know it you will feel comfortable.

[ms700]

Office politics exist everywhere, no matter your profession.

I always separate myself from the whingers, and the people who are never happy. The kinda people who whinge when they are given a choccie biscuit, that they wanted caramel instead..... These people will always make you see the bad side of every situation. These same whingers are usually the one's who will bag you out if you get all your work done early, or do it to a very high standard.

Things could always be worse, but a lot of people fail to see that. A job is a job, and its what you make of it. Ive heard garbo's having a whale of a good time and having a lot of fun emptying bins. Try having a mindset of the glass is half full, every cloud has a silver lining etc etc. No matter how bad things get, they could always be worse. We have guys on shift whinging cause its so quiet and boring, nothing to do, umm dude, your driving around in a car, usually XR6T's or SS's, getting paid good coin, there are people who would give a left nut for your job, stfu.

[Buf-Phoon]

If you are anxious . Stay off the syrup.

Otherwise depression is just around the corner..

I am going to go out on a limb here, but your environment is key!

Be aware of the black dog of depression.It can plague you if you let it!

I am semi retired have no financial worries, yet I have suffered from not mild ,not modearte ,but severe clininical depression.

I have a wonderful and supportive family and an ex wife who has saved my life more than once when the black cloud descended.

That has been since we were divorced 10 years ago.We still love each other to bits , but that's another story

I have been very succesful over a long period of time.runing a team of over 15 people earning over $100K

Yet I have often felt I have gone from the pent house to the sh*t house.

I am not cured ,nor do I expect to be any time soon.. For those that know me I'm just a little bit of a Hellion .

You might notice that I have started a lot of sentences with I . For a reason. It is about me !

It is about confidence and selfbelief.Get out there, I've never lacked that.

Doesn't mean you don't feel really sad sometimes.

I'm still good enough that my Doctor is my current GF

Sorry for the long winded post but get onto Beyond Blue and speak to your GP.

I apologise for the long post but I have a serious interest in mens mental health.

Something that us car chaps are reluctant to achknowledge.

I just hope that I can help.

If anyone want's to chat PM me as I.m sure I can help

Be aware chaps/lasses that it took some testicular fortitude to make this post.

Be proud, be strong and believe. You WILL DO IT

[Dillz]

I think the main problem with depression Buff is it's extremely hard to self diagnose, you don't just wake up one day and go BANG I've got depression, it could just be a bad day.

And with anxiety, everyone gets anxious at times some more then others. IMO the best way to get over it is to charge it head on, what ever it is that's making you anxious just do it. Worse case scenario you were right but at least you know now and it will usually be a little better next time.

[Buf-Phoon]

I disagree Dillz, whilst you can't supposedly self diagnose depression your GP will have a

generic template as a base diagnostic indicator.

No offence but your opinion accounts for jack sh*t. Depression is more than a having a sh*t day

and that view point is naieve in the extreme.

There are 100s if not 1000s of kids every year that will now have a sh*t day every Xmas and every other occasion

due to lacking a father that has comitted suicide.

It is not just a matter of just rucking it up the middle. I am probably made of sterner stuff than a lot around here

and haven't been immune.

Pig ignorance and fear is what causes blokes to top themselves.

This is a serious social issue. Do your homework before you post ill informed opinions.

It is just that . Opinion.

Go read the forums here

http://www.beyondblue.org.au/index.aspx

This is very serious sh*t my friend. Do not be so disrepectful.

I have run businesses turning over au$500m for many years so I know what a sh*t day is.

Dillz this is not a personal attack and I apologise if it seems that way.

I am just letting members know that this is a serious social issue.

Time to man up and support people rather than putting the slipper in when

it's the last thing they need.

I spend a lot of my time and therfeore money supporting charities to improve peoples lives.

I have been to some very dark places and I do not wish for anyone to go the sameway.

and..... I am proper farkin hard

[tab]

Dilly was referring to anxiety...like the OP was. Massive difference between nerves/anxiety and clinical depression isn't there?

The bloke is just a bit tense about starting a new job, if that's all it is then can't see the need for anti-depressants and a psychologist like everyone is suggesting. In my humble opinion.

[Dillz]

Yeah you completely miss understood me Buff. "you don't just wake up one day and go BANG I've got depression, it could just be a bad day." I mean that's what people think and just go on living with it assuming it's not a real problem, when it is. Therefor they don't even bother going to a GP.

The rest was aimed at anxiety.

[Buf-Phoon]

true Trentus. Just on another of my save the world crusades

[tab]

And hopefully it does...it's something that most blokes are too scared to even mention let alone openly discuss. So for that if nothin' else.