Bipolar Disorder Support Group

unemployed, but not receiving disability because i was diagnosed last year while i was working, and was working up until two months ago.
i really wish i was working. i have never been unemployed for so long. i am bored out of my mind most of the time. i apply to about 5 new jobs a week. i am so desperate!

I work 35 hours a week. I am a PCP, Personal Care Provider, for the disabled through a home health care company. I like my job, flexible hours and good pay.

I didnt work for several years while raising my kids......I started back about 10 years ago cleaning houses, working for myself, it pays great money and kept me very active. It was very flexible.

I have my own business now helping people organize their homes and lives. It, too, is very flexible and pays great money. I have always been a very active person and found it difficult to stop.......I knew I would only feel worse about myself and my life.

I think even if we cant work, we should at least volunteer our time and learn what our other interests might be. I think alot of people who cant work struggle with isolation and boredome issues so it makes sense to try to get out and help others.

Hugs

i work at writing, producing and directing plays, a contract yearly to do an environmental project (this year producing four half hour radio shows and judging a poetry comp with an environmental there, giving poetry readings and publication of same, writing the stories of peopole's lives for funeral reflections, sometimes as a chef when needed, writing articles for irish association of suicidology, work as a heritage specialist in schools. with most of these jobs i can fit them in when i am feeling able to do so. i know it souds like a lot but i have loads of free time so that when depression or mania is at it's worse i can at least retreat from the world.

sorry, 'environmental theme' and 'sounds' rather than 'there' and'souns' !

I am on SSDI. I wish everyday that the Lord sends me a way to make more money then what they give me. Hubby could take more hours at work or get another one , but He works hard enough.I want to be the one to get up early and go to work. I miss the daily grind

I work full-time and I am a case manager in a crisis center for a mental health center. I try to be an inspiration for those people, especially the newly diagnosed and those who have a history of med noncompliance that keeps ending them up in the hospital.

I am recently unemployed after 29 years at the same company. The last 10 years I have been a web designer. I have some side work web designing and product /gift design like wall calendars, toys and what ever and did some stuff for Jeff Gordon, Dale Jr., and Jimmie Johnson. But most of it has dried up at the moment. I collect unemployment but I am about to lose my health insurance since I can't afford COBRA for much longer. I am trusting God will step in here.

I work full-time at a University in the Admissions Office. Very busy office, for sure! I'm extremely blessed and fortunate to have this job after all these years, especially after having a scary manic episode in front of everyone (plus many, many depressive episodes that interfered with my work).

My co-workers and supervisors are so wonderful to me. It's a great place to work.

I've been a nurse since 1983. I've had to take a few FMLA's because of this illness over the years but have been lucky enough to keep my job. Most of the time I find it rewarding but there certainly is a lot of pressure which gets in the way.......