For a long time, I had a Work meeting to attend after therapy. I had half an hour between the end of therapy and the beginning of the work meeting, though, so generally I was able to get myself together enough to function. Two or three times I wasn't able to do that, so I bailed on the work meeting (no harm came of it, this was over the course of two or 2.5 years). It worked okay for me but this was a big meeting with almost fifty people where I wasn't really expected to participate much. If it were a departmental meeting, where people knew me better and could read my mood, I wouldn't have been comfortable going after therapy. No intimate social occasions like with one or two friends would work for me, either. I'm too raw after therapy. I need time to reassemble my armor.