My Motto: Do What You Can, When You Can, If You Can

I’m often embarrassed at how little I can get done due to bipolar disorder.  It’s so easy to be hard on myself for what I see as a PERSONAL PROBLEM. I have days where I can’t work at all.  Not even an hour. It has been like this forever, but I’m still ridiculously upset when it happens.

The reality? Bipolar disorder is often dis-abling. I may want to answer my Facebook comments or record a short blog or even clean my room, but the task it too overwhelming.   There are many days I simply can’t do what I want to do- even if it’s the most basic of tasks.

I hate it. We all hate it.

The only way out is to do what you can.  For example, I have writings from the past ten years that are a wealth of information about managing this illness.

My mind whispers: If I didn’t have bipolar disorder, I would be ABLE to go through these writings and quickly put them into books and blogs and articles and……..!!!

But I do have bipolar. 

Maybe you have bipolar or care about someone with bipolar. 

It’s a treatable illness- but it’s often a limiting illness.

I CAN’T go through all of my past writings and put the information on Facebook and record it on a podcast and do this an that.  I can do a bit at at time. That’s all.

Bummer.

Julie

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