I am new to this support group. I was diagnosed about 12+ years ago. At the beginning it was really not so bad. I had bad days and good weeks. I was annoying but not intolerable. I learned to deal and medication helped for the most part. About 5 years ago I had to go to part time work, I was unable to continue with full time employment as the bad days and good weeks had changed into bad days and not as bad days. A year and a half ago I went on long term disability. I have bad days on top of worse days and then even worse days. I have become very anti social, as how do you plan to do things when it may be a worse day. I am a grandmother to 4 and I am so not the grandma I want to be. I want to play and run and jump and hop with them. I can't. I am a young grandma(47 years) and always thought I would be the cool grandma. My husband tries to be supportive but I just don't think he gets it. Anyways I am on this support group to find people who understand what I am going thru because they have similar experiences.