You CAN Get Well Enough to Work

After 15 years of daily bipolar disorder management- I’m really seeing the results. I never thought I would get better. I’m going to sound like a broken record on this, but it’s true. You can get better. I can’t give you a time frame, but it can happen.

By better I mean that I can work part time. It’s interesting that I would measure my success on this level,but I do. I have worked for years on my friendships and they are going well. They are always challenging,but I feel I have the skills to deal with what comes up- especially in terms of my jealousy and paranoia when I get depressed. I have a good relationship with my family. I can see a lot of good things in my life. It’s not perfect of course.  People leave me – get upset with me- maybe even grown tired of me! But I can handle it.  The big change is that I can sit and work.

Being able to work without getting sick has eluded me for many years. It happened because I found medications that work well with my management plan.  It took a long time to adjust to the side effects- and my life is not perfect- which I very naively thought it would be! But I’m better.

Believe me, if I’m 49 and am working more efficiently than in many years.

Julie

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