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Originally Posted by farmergirl
In the hospital, they said that it will take 4-6 months to recover from an episode severe enough to land you in the hospital. I've never had the luxury of giving myself that much time and have always gone back to work within a week of discharge unless it was in the summer. I think though that recovery does not necessarily mean we have to not do anything, but we do need to pace ourselves and be hypervigilant about our self-care.
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I agree with what you posted farmergirl. I couldn't even think of going back to work 1 week after discharge and I'm sorry you weren't able to take more time off.
After my 6 week hospitalization I did outpatient therapy until an intensive 8 hour a day/4 day a week program started. I think if I didn't have the structure of going there each day it would have been dangerous for me. I will be forever grateful to my P-doc to forcing me off of work for 8 months. It's been 3 years since my hospitalization and I am back at my career.