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I thought this site may help you better understand bipolar, and how it's treated, etc. -- you may have already read through it, but just in case: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001924/
Additionally, you may want to look up your local chapter of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). They have excellent resources and the program, itself, offers a Peer to Peer program, that will likely prove helpful. Here's their national link: http://www.nami.org/
I wish you all the best.
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Posted by chitownguy773
Hello all,
I am writing to address a few situations, but i'll narrow it down. I left my job about 4 months ago (happily). Relaxed for about a month, and then decided I wanted to study for business school. I started studying, a class, the whole nine yards. What Ive found in the last 2 months is I'm not looking for a job. I study and work out and do chores, but I dont search for a job. It's as if im scared to.
About 5 months ago I was diagnosed as bipolar. In the beginning the treatment seemed to work. For the last 2 months ive been sliding down hill. I have found that I am not interested in very much. I dont care to look for a job. I have this delusion that I will just get into business school and not have to work, when, in reality I cant go back to school with no way of paying for it.
So I am not sure what is going on with me. I feel scared. I feel as if I dont know what to look for, where to go, who talk to. Without any interests I dont know what industry to look at or what job descriptions may fit the bill. This situation is starting to make me manic depressive as I feel stuck.
In my last appointment with my psychiatrist I was a mess. All he could say by the end of the session was "we need to think outside the box."