I had to retire from my job. My fatigue is so bad and I have panic disorder and social anxiety. I was also suicidal so my husband had to retire too to take care of me

I quit my last job after 5 years. It was high stress taking care of developmentally disabled adults. They had me working 48 hours straight, every week I would be up 60 hours or more straight without sleep. I asked for a more normal schedule like everyone else in the company had but that acted like I was talking a foreign language. Finally the stress of lack of sleep and poor management decisionss drove me to quit. I don't feel like getting another job and working for a boss anymore. I hate how they try to control your whole life
I will figure out how to make money on my own instead.

I think alot of times our bodies and our minds are trying to tell us something. When I went to counseling, they try to teach you coping skills. I never was good at handling stress. I was lucky enough to be able to retire early. I worked at a job where there were deadlines every week. So you couldn't just do what you could or you would get fired. When you retire, you have to remember that there is an adjustment period. I have been retired two years now and I am just
starting to get use to it.

I went on SSDI when I was 28 for both a physical disability (had nearly lost my leg in a car accident) and my depression and PTSD. The leg took a few years to heal, but I was on SSDI for 10 years - the mental health problems were fully disabling themselves. Then I did get back to work - different field - and worked for 6 years in a high-stress job, with increasing responsibilities, with no issues. Then about 3 years ago things started to unravel again. In the last 18 months I have been hospitalized 3 times and am on my third stint of short-term disability - over 4 months this time and being urged to file for long-term disability and for SSDI. I want to work - but it is clear that I can't do that job anymore. I am likely headed for at least a few more months of disability, maybe more. But given my other diagnoses (emphysema, neuropathy, kidney problems and others) it may be time to get out of the traditional work world. Even though I've only been working again for less than a decade, I've been very good about saving for retirement, because I knew in all likelihood that I would not be able to work to traditional retirement age.

I retired because of depression and anxiety. Four years ago I took time off of work, because of my mental well-being. I went in a 9 week outpatient program. I had HR bugging me. I finished the program and HR talked me into coming right back. I did because I had such anxiety about going back that I thought let's just get this over with. I was supposed to be on a modified work program, but it was not individualized. I don't feel like my mental health was that important to them. That's a whole other story. Anyway, I tried to make it work for a year and a half more, but I felt I wasn't helping my mental well-being, so I retired.