A belated thanks for this greenfrog.

I am planning a graduated return to work like this. The problem is that I am unemployed and looking for a new job, and there are practically no part time jobs in my field (and very few that are low-stress).

For now, I am trying to volunteer and using that as my ramp-up to returning to the workforce. The problem is that the volunteer work doesn't challenge me enough to be an accurate guage of how my symptoms will react to a real workplace.

There's a lot of anxiety also about whether I will (ever) be able to perform at my previous high level.