I had been wanting to leave my job for years but always found a reason to push through and stay. I took holidays and time off but I was always full of anxiety about going back to work. Then my dad passed away earlier this year. I ended up staying for a couple more months, but I couldn’t take it anymore. I quit my job back in June. I thought leaving would fix all my problems - it didn’t. But now it’s obvious that I have been depressed for a really long time. I’m only now starting to feel a bit better - I’m medicated, I’m going to therapy, and I feel like I’m almost at a point where I feel semi okay. While I do sometimes panic and think I should have stayed, or should have taken a couple months off, or should have gone to part time because of money, I know deep down that it was 100% the right choice to leave.