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I've just started working as a Health Care Assistant at a hospital and don't like it...?

I'm 17 and suffer from anxiety and I'm not enjoying going. I have to be back there tomorrow and I've been in tears because I don't want to go back but I'm scared to tell anyone that I really don't like it. I wanted my family to be proud of me but if I tell them I don't want to do it anymore and pull out of the course, then I'll have nothing to do. I came out of college to do the course and I won't know what to do from there. What do you think I should do?

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I think that perhaps you should stick it out for a bit longer and see what happens. I've worked in situations that I haven't liked to begin with, but after a while, things have begun to improve and I have gained from the experience.

Working in a hospital can be scary at times, especially if you're new, but it can also be very rewarding and will give you some valuable life experience.

When I first started my nurse training I was terrified, but after a while I started to enjoy it and met some wonderful people along the way.

Please try to give yourself just a little bit longer. If you're anxiety is very bad then see your doctor and ask for some Propranolol - this is a beta blocker drug and will block the action of adrenaline on the heart - this will relax you and make you feel calmer. It is non addictive and safe and you can come off it when you feel better.

I hope you start to feel better soon. Remember that sometimes the things that scare us the most can lead to us being stronger people in the long run if we have the courage to face them.

Good Luck xxx

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• Don't spend your life doing something you don't like, but also don't give up too easily on too many things either. At some times, in some situations, in some places, you just have to Cowboy Up and work through what you don't want to, at the very least to convince yourself and others that you've given it your best effort.
  
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• I know it's hard, but go in tomorrow because you have done it once and you can do it again. Try and take it an hour at a time. Saying I will just get through this hour. At the same time you will be helping people which will take your mind off problems-and you can do it! After you get through that day you will be proud of yourself. Try hard not to think outside of the day if you can. We can only live in one day at a time-and if we try and think like that we are not overawed by the seeming endless labour in the years ahead. Oh a prayer to God will help-I guarantee it. You are His daughter after all and He loves you!

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• there is no point in carrying on, you need to go back to college and tell them and see if you can find anything else, child care, teaching assistant, even till operator in tesco, health and beauty,or as daft as it might seem, maybe even bricklaying or painting and decorating, see if there is anything suitable
• your family will be supportive of whatever your choice is, if your 17 i shouldnt worry about it...theres plenty more options for you to do, theres people goingon 30 that still dont no what they want to do... if you dont like it then quit.. then focus on the things you like until you get inspired to try something else.
• IF U DONT LIKE IT NOW U WON'T LIKE IT 5 YRS DOWN THE LINE AND IF U WAIT UNTIL THEN TO DROP OUT THEN U WILL JUST WASTE TIME THAT U COULD BE USING TO GO BACK TO COLLEGE AND DOING SOMETHING THAT IS MORE UP UR ALLEY
  
  IF U ALREADY CANT STAND IT NOW THEN BELIEVE ME, THE LONGER U STAY U WILL NOT HELP...DONT SUCK IT UP AND DO IT JUST BECAUSE U DONT WANT TO DISAPPOINT UR FAMILY BECAUSE EVENTUALLY IT WILL GET TO YOU AND IT WILL BECOME TOO MUCH TO BEAR AND UR GONNA END UP LEAVING ANYWAY
  
  SO MY BEST ADVICE IS TO EXPLAIN TO UR PARENTS HOW UR FEELING AND GO BACK TO COLLEGE AND DO SOMETHING YOU REALLY WANT TO DO ...IF COLLEGE IS NOT THE THING FOR YOU AND YOU DONT THINK U CAN DEDICATE URSELF TO UR WORK FOR 2 YEAQRS (ASSOCIATE DEGREE) OR 4 YEARS(BACHELORS DEGREE) THEN JUST GO TO A TECHNICAL INSTITUTE AND DO A SHORT PROGRAM AND GET A DIPLOMA(1 YEAR) OR A CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT( SOME PROGRAMS ARE AS SHORT AS 2-3 MONTHS)
  
  THERE IS ALWAYS SOME OTHER OPTION. UR ONLY SEVENTEEN..U HAVE TIME ...MAKE THE BEST OF IT
  
  GOOD LUCK ..I HOPE I HELPED :)

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