Posted by jane d on February 2, 2002, at 11:51:16
In reply to short-term disability for major depression?, posted by m3 on January 31, 2002, at 13:07:10
M3,
I'll leave the advice on whether you can get disability to those who have experienced it. I do think that you should do whatever you can to continue working. If you absolutely can't avoid disability than of couse you make the best of it but I've found that not working makes me worse. Working provides a structure to my day that I can't give myself and contact with other people which I would choose not to have. And once I am are out of the job market, having left because I felt I couldn't handle working, I find it much harder to go back than it would have been to just continue slogging along. I'm sure that there are exceptions where it would be better to leave. Horrible jobs that make you worse or cases where messing up could keep you from being employed in the future, for instance by putting a professional license in jeopardy. You'll need to decide for yourself which group you're in.
By the way if you've been in treatment for 2 years and are now getting worse it may be time to look at a different treatment.
Good luck.
Jane
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