I have a pet peeve that really annoys me, that I need to vent from. I've been Dx'd with MDD, PTSD, and alcoholism. I've been IP for the last month, and currently am no longer depressed. MY PTSD symptoms are in remission and I'm currently sober. So all in all I'm in pretty good shape.

But my Dr's seem to have built in biases when it comes to my working. I got laid off at the end of June (management restructuring - in no way performance related) so I need to start job hunting. My addictions team keeps telling me that I need to be in a low stress job. Well I followed their advice the last time and took a junior lower stress job at a significant pay cut, and it was ok. But as I got better i hated it. I need to be intellectually challenged. When I'm bored I get into trouble. So because I think I can handle it, I'm going to be looking for a more senior higher paying higher stress job this time around. They are adamently opposed (not that they can do anything about it).

Then when I had my session with my IP pdoc yesterday we were talking about aftercare options, and I said I only wanted to do the one day a week aftercare so as not to interfere too much with job hunting, she said, well if you do find a PART TIME job, and feel you need more support later you can always ask to be referred back to the more intensive day treatment. It was the part time assumption that pissed me off. I have an MBA, I'm a designated accountant, I've held senior high stress jobs most of my life. She herself admits that I'm well, so why the assumption that I'm looking for part time work? I can't afford to only work part time, and I'm more than capable of working full time.

I'm going to tell her about it when I see her on Tues.

Thanks for letting me vent.

--splitimage