This is only my second post here on PsychCentral. (I already introduced myself in the New Members section, that was my first post.)

I'm actually doing pretty well overall, but I am terrified that I will fall back into a serious depression. I've had several serious episodes of depression, each worse than the previous one.

Work stress was a major contributor to my depression. I'm now back at work after a two-and-a-half year sick leave for treatment of depression. I had to fight like hell to make it back from the brink, and I'm just so afraid that I'm going to land up in some of the same situations at work that triggered my depressions in the first place.

I can't leave my job because I am very close to being able to take an early retirement and get out of this situation. I only have to hang in there for one more year and then I can take early retirement, which is what I plan to do. I just have to find some way to survive in this job without falling back into a depression. I don't know if I can do that or not.