I am a teacher in my 31st year of teaching -- all but my first year in the same school district. My teaching and those kids have been my salvation. They've kept me directed, focused, and busy. I'm the primary income in our home, so I've just had to make it work. With three children and a seriously ill husband, I just kept doing what I do. I've been fortunate. I'm pretty high functioning. I've been hospitalized many, many times, but one of the things teaching affords me are summers and holidays where I could work my hospitalizations often (not always) around those weeks off.