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Where can someone with a mental illness get a job?

I suffer from depression and generalized anxiety. I have been putting off getting a job for years. I recently got fed up with my $20 a week allowance and want to start working like a normal person. Regular first time jobs aren't right for me. Being a cashier and maybe even working the floor at a department store are too much for me. I could do stocking, but businesses don't like to advertise that kind of job. Does anyone know how to find listings for quiet, behind-the-scenes jobs, or any websites/organizations that could help me get on the right path? I'm 19 years old and completely unsure of what to do. Please help!

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1. Look up the Center for Independent Living. They are devoted to helping differently abled people find jobs that fit. Two places you might check are McDonalds, and Goodwill Industries.
2. At 19 you should either be in college or getting ready for college. Mental illnesses are over diagnosed, but because of the psych industry controlled media people are happy to get the label as it gives them an identity without having to work for it. Get ready to go to a real college, none of that online or watered down schools. To prepare get the book, "Geometry the Easy Way" by Barron's and carefully study and work through the first 200 pages of it. If your taking psych meds for anxiety then wean off of them as they impair memory needed to make good grades. While in college you can sign up for work study, they pay you to do things at college that allow free time to study, like sitting in a computer lab to make certain no one carries off the computers. College is not for everyone, but almost anyone who really, really wants to learn to improve themselfs can do it. The rule of thumb is to study two hours out of class for every hour in class. But if your not up to doing that don't sign up, or bad grades will occur and ruin your future chances of getting an education. Whatever you do don't make excuses for being lazy, you will end up living a boring life. Banks will let you get in debt up to your eyeballs for an education, so make certain your degree is in an area that has employment potential.
3. Find an area of work that truly interests you. Depression and anxiety are not fatal illnesses and most of the symptoms can be helped by positive living and acting. If you can go back to school or train in an area that will take your mind off what you seem to think you lack, it will be good. If training is adding to your stress at the moment, try voluntary work where you can take up positive challenges and raise your self esteem. If you are not growing in some form of maturity your life will go into decline. Look at every day as a chance for new opportunities and your Horizon will widen and the job that will present itself, but you have to do the work now in yourself to jump over the wall. Try anything that you can physically and emotionally handle until something better comes your way.
4. I don't think depression and anxiety is classed as mental illness. There is a herb 'St. John's Wort' ...it has helped very many folks suffering from depression and anxiety. Use your $20.00 allowance and get some. OK? But then you won't have any money left to buy chewing gum! Well....you want a loan?