Bipolar Disorder and Work: I’ve got to get my act together!
For the past few weeks, I was pretty ill so I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked. Now that I’m better, I have to get my act together and create a schedule I have to follow. Today is Saturday and I’ve been floating again. I so wish I had an office to go to! Restaurants and coffee shops work when I have a specific deadline, but when the deadline is internal, I have trouble. I am watching the Super Bowl tomorrow so that day is planned. I now have to plan next week so that I have to be at certain places at certain times.
This has always been a problem. If you go to work at a certain time and come home a certain time, would you like to change places!!!! I want someone looking over my [ Read More ]
Wow, thanks so much for the nice comments. It has definitely been a tough week. I made it to all of my appointments- saw all of the people I said I would see and basically kept functioning, but work definitely suffered. I started with the correct meds two days ago and I’m already feeling better.
I receive a lot of blog comments with questions. Please feel free to offer tips to the person asking the question as I think that we all have ideas on what can help manage this illness- and advice for those we care about people with the illness! I will answer all I can in the next week.
I will be back in action soon. I know the new meds will really help. I have a book proposal due, lots of email to answer and an article to write for BP Magazine. I have to get myself in [ Read More ]
Hi to all of you who have written such nice notes. It’s true, I have definitely been sick. Once I figured out it was a medication problem, I took action. It’s hard to take action when you’re crying and feel like you can’t go on- but that’s just the illness. I am much, much better today. My Health Cards tell me when to do when I have bad mood swings and my family knows how to use them as well. We are so used to the system as we have used it for eight years! Where does the time go!
I will write more later today on what happened. I am so thankful I know how to manage bipolar disorder, but it’s still shocking that it can sneak up on me so quickly!
If you read my blog below, you can tell I’ve really had trouble lately in terms of getting my work done. I always have struggles, but I use the ideas in my books and just keep going. When it’s hard for me to even sit down, then I know something is not right physically.
My friend Sherri called last night and said, “Are you ok! I just read your blog and I’m worried about you!”
Hmm.. I didn’t mean to sound that bad! But it has been pretty bad. I have many ways to figure out what is wrong when I’m having mood swings- the first is to check the triggers. I know that troublesome relationships cause me a lot of trouble- which leads to mood swings- book deadlines that are too intense can also make me quite ill, but I always keep working.
This time, nothing is going on. There are no triggers. Yes, [ Read More ]
2012: Blogs are interesting – if you read old posts it’s easy to see patterns that were absolutely unclear at the time. I had a terrifically difficult time with generic Lamictal (Lamotrigine). It took me a long time to figure out the problem, but reading this makes it pretty clear what was happening. Interesting. What about you? Can you look back on situations and see what was a medication problem or a bipolar problem- and yet you couldn’t see it at the time? Oh yes, I can do that a lot. Here is the post from 2009.
I’m really struggling today. I swear I would do anything just to get rid of these constant mood swings. I have friends with bipolar disorder who have a lot of normal days- by normal I [ Read More ]
Yes, our economy stinks. It has affected my business greatly- and not in a good way- and it has possibly affected you similarly.
I was very freaked out at first. A friend of mine lost her job and many friends lost a lot of their retirement. Eventually I realized that worrying was not helping me. I now choose to see this situation as a challenge to myself intellectually and emotionally instead of something awful. This is when I can get very creative and focused on my goals. What can I do to turn this around in my life? What can I do to create business elsewhere? What do I need to change?
People are spending less- that is actually a good thing for this country in the long term. It has made me look at my spending. What can I do now to protect myself from this when [ Read More ]
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