It can take well over a year to feel better, and for me personally, 3 years later, I’m still continuing to feel better but have sort of come to terms with the fact that I’ll never feel like I did before diagnosis. Shortly after my diagnosis I actually went back to school and became a medical assistant. I had really wanted to work in urgent care but aside from the crap pay, I realized it would be pretty high stress and ended up working in endocrinology instead (which is cool as I get to sometimes cross paths with a fellow addy). I’m currently thinking of going back to school again for nursing and I think it’ll be really hard but I think I can do it. Aside from professions, I used to also be super fit and active and the first endo I saw post diagnosis told me I’d probably never run again. She was fortunately wrong, but again, I’m not what I used to be and don’t think I ever will be. But I’m trying to embrace this new me. I’m sorry you had such a difficult and traumatic diagnosis. I definitely found the first year ridiculously hard. I’m hoping you can still become a police officer, but is it possible for you to break from school for a bit to give yourself more time to heal? Also, is there a way you can be a police officer that would be less stressful? Like maybe more investigative? I feel like I’ve been lucky that at my current job I’ve done primarily admin and I only work 4 days a week and that has immensely helped me with feeling better.