What a great poll Piglet.

I choose full-time, because I look after my kids, and that is full-time. I rested for a good year or two before landing into full-time looking after the kids, which is what my doctors basically told me to do.

Working with adults, and working with children are two distinctively different things with PTSD, in that working with adults brings out the peer group pressures and expectations that cause undue stress. Dealing with adults requires the capability of intellectual conversation with both positives and negatives, which can lead to undue stress IMHO.

Dealing with children at home, within an environment that you control, is much different from my viewpoint. As a father doing the full-time job of running the house, I know exactly what mothers in that situation have gone through for hundreds of years previously. It is no simple task to achieve. With PTSD though, I actually find it very relaxing. The reason is, is that children are not as stressful as adults with PTSD. Children don't have the intellectual capability to discuss complex meanings of life and society, thus this type of stress is never present. Children just want to know why, and so forth, as they are learning life. Children don't have expectations of you like an adult does. Children just want you to be there for them, play with them, look after them, just to be with them and love them. Nothing more, nothing less. PTSD is very adaptable to this for all intensive purposes, because whilst looking after children has stressors, it isn't intentional to the point of dealing with an adult. When an adult does something wrong, they 100% realise it, where a child, they don't really realise what they have done in relation to the affect it causes to an adult. With the correct mindset, ie. they are just a child, and it is our job to teach them, care for them and look after their general well-beng, most of the stress become non-existant IMHO. I think by looking after my little one, it has helped me deal with the pressures of society and having to cope with certain roles and responsibilities faster than that if I where working within an adult environment.

Anyway, that is my perception and how my life revolves with PTSD.