I have been on short term disability for a couple weeks. I've been completely miserable, feeling terrible, needing doctor visits and appointments, no energy, just utterly lousy. Anxiety over filing deadlines, paperwork, etc. Not to mention a broken refrigerator.
These past two weeks have been such a relief. I haven't had to work. I haven't had to think about work. I haven't had to sit through meetings, do pointless busywork, do mental labor that will just be undone by the next terrible developer who touches that block.
I don't want to go back. I will; I need the money. But it's messed up that a couple miserable weeks of being desperately sick have been better than healthy weeks at work.