Kelly Wilson is a return-to-work success story. In January 2009, her beloved father – the man she calls her best friend – became ill. He was in and out of the hospital several times before he died in July that year.
The experience triggered severe anxiety in Wilson, an employee of Coca-Cola in Tulsa, Okla. When her dad died, “it was too much for me to handle. I couldn’t even put one foot in front of the other,” she recalls.