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Social anxiety disorder and working (need opinions)?

I'm 23. For the last 4 years I work from home, I go to bed around 4-5 am and wake up at 12-1 pm. I have agoraphobia (not bad enough to make me homebound, bad enough to make me have panic attacks when I'm too far away from my "safe territory". ESPECIALLY in the morning my anxiety gets worse.

Now I got a job offer from a 5 star hotel which pays really well, my best friend works there also. But the thing is, I will have to be at work at 6 AM (there are 3 shifts). You know mornings are really awful for SAD AND I'm already insomniac, my body clock changed a long while ago. So..

Positive sides: Pays well, I'll be with my best friend
Negative sides: If I screw, my friend will loose her reputation kinda (she'll recommend me), I have to wake up way too early and work at the outside world (SAD problem part)



Should I take the job?

Honestly, yes, its the best thing you can do for yourself. Instead of facing your fears and working to live your life in spite of the social anxiety disorder, you have simply ordered your life around it. You have accepted that his is all there is and all there will be.

Social anxiety disorder can be dealt with, as can panic attacks outside your safe area. You need to learn relaxation techniques, countering and changing false beliefs and other tools that will allow you to have a full functional life.

What at opportunity, to get to do this with a safe person instead of all alone as so many of us do. You CAN do this and it is going to set you free.

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