Sanityseeker, Yes I have both short and long term disability insurance which I'll use if I ever need to. What I'm in now is 2 half day follow up programs a week that are aftercare. When I needed to do full rehab it was an outpatient program that ran 1/2 days 4 days a week, and I worked part time around it. They gave me the option of STD but it's a small company and nobody is trained to backfill my job so it was better for me and the company for me to switch to part time hours for the 10 week period & my boss was very understanding.

If I ever needed to go IP again for MH reasons, I wouldn't hesitate to do it, and would take full advantage of my insurance. That's largely due to the fact that I know my job would be protected due to anti-discrimination legislation.

For now I have a solution, that alright is a little crazy, but it works for me and for the company.

--splitimage