Thank you all! I feel so torn about this and also very afraid to bring it up to my husband. On the one hand, I look at this and I say to myself ‘look how long you’ve been stable’ and on the other hand I say ‘any time you have ever been this unwell it has taken a long time to get well’. What if quitting work makes my situation worse? What if continuing to work makes it worse? There’s this black shroud covering my eyes. I could tell my t really thinks I shouldn’t work. In the middle of my session she asked if my husband could join us (he had driven because I am manic). I called him but he was driving around and at the time too far away. She asked to speak with him on the phone and in doing so told him to not allow me to go to work Thurs or Fri. Then she told me that I might want to take off early next week too. As I mentioned my pdoc also asked me if I needed a leave of absence and is in the process of filling out fmla. She did leave it entirely up to me. She has supported me in what ever decision I have wanted to pursue. At one time a couple of years ago (when I was VERY unwell) she was going to fill out disability paperwork but I didn’t qualify. Then, when I got better, I was glad it had worked out that way because I was so successfully working. When I told her I was going to go back to school to get my teaching degree (I’m only 13 credit hours shy of my bachelor’s degree and once I get it I can teach because I can get alternate certification in special needs), she also fully supported me. She has great faith in me. Sometimes I wish she would be more assertive about issues such as this one though. At times in the past she has been. At one point she wanted me to go to a residential home if I didn’t start to get better but my mom and husband were going to fight her on it because the closest one from me is several hours away and I need my kids and they need me. Thankfully, I did start improving within a few weeks time. It’s around the time we started depakote which that, in combination with seroquel, has been the most effective med I’ve taken.