I can't really separate them entirely, I don't think. I mean I function well at a professional level, and don't bring my therapy to work - in fact being passionate about my chosen career is a great break from the issues that took me into therapy, and I feel very privileged to do what I do. But at the same time the issues I'm dealing with are never far from my thoughts - and if I'm doing a less than stimulating part of my job then they creep in more. To be honest though I was pretty much the same before I was in treatment, in terms of never being faraway from anxiety or despair about my substantial problems when I allowed myself to focus on them. Before therapy it was worse, because I hadn't even begun to unpick the tangle - now I feel I have back up