I'm a home health nurse, I've been off work since Sept 6th when I went into the hospital for mania. I had never been truly manic before, just hypomanic or depressed. I've had many issues with exhaustion for the past week...first meds were too high, so they were adjusted...still didn't go away and Tdoc said she likes to call it "exhaustion after mania".

Anyways, today I feel pretty good. I went out for about 4 hours doing some stuff and I still feel okay. I actually think I'm started to miss working now. I'm getting tired of the isolation feeling. Of course Pdoc would have to approve and write me a return to work note. I just don't want to jump the gun...

How have any of you known when it was okay to go back to work or not???