Hey everyone. Happy Holiday’s. I was curious to hear any stories about small business owners that have depression on here.
I am a small business owner that has an online service business primarily helping other small local business owners in their cities get more traffic and customers. I also have depression and it’s not due to any situation, it’s just there.
For those of you that don’t have depression, I explain it other like a migraine, severe headache, or even a very bad upset stomach from eating something bad. You can either wait for it to pass (leaving you useless for a day or even days) or you can push through and try your hardest to make it work. (and just deal)
My depression can actually wipe me out. But because I have clients, I just push through to keep them successful.
I was just curious if there are any other small business owners here that that have depression, anxiety, or other mental illnesses? I know for me, it makes normal everyday business situations, that much harder. But I love what I do so I just push through.
Would love to hear any of your stories or how it impacts you. Thanks and I’m wishing you all good success as we get closer to the end of the year. May next year be even better :)
Depression and PTSD here.
End of the day the job has to get done.
Nobody there to do it if I’m not.
Clients may accept the odd hiccup but I’m not letting my mental illness be an excuse. Some days that just means I’m really fucking stoned while I work.
I’m usually really stoned.
Oh I’m really sorry to hear this. I don’t have PTSD but I can’t imagine going through that. I was diagnosed with panic disorder so it may be PTSD when I’m in situations that make my brain think this will happen again.
But I don’t know if it’s diagnosable as PTSD. Your stoned comment really made me laugh. Does it help a lot? Like day and night? or takes the edge off a bit to mellow out? Would love to hear more on that.