Here is what I’ve learned regarding bipolar disorder and work.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1. It’s hard to work when you have mood swings. So, decreasing the mood swings with a treatment plan (I use my Health Cards system and my books to remind myself how to help myself!) will help you work more.<\/p>\n
2. Bipolar Disorder mood swings can be productivity killers. Especially the ADHD components of\u00a0 the illness.\u00a0 Mania is seemingly great for productivity- but only if you can harness it into real work!<\/p>\n
3. Work abililty may not get better, but YOUR ability to work around your mood swings and the other odd stuff that bipolar\u00a0throws at you\u00a0can get much, much better.<\/p>\n
So, here I am. <\/strong><\/p>\n I was diagnosed in 1995. Didn’t get relief from meds- in fact they made me worse as I was given anti depressants like candy!\u00a0 When I created the Health Cards, I was able to work a lot more- but still only part time.\u00a0 Then, in 2002 I found my calling- eBooks. I know, that was a long time ago. BipolarHappens.com was the first site on the web to sell self help eBooks!\u00a0 Times have certainly changed.<\/p>\n But I digress. Here is why my title to this blog post is so true… I’m 47 and there is a still a HUGE part of me that believes my bipolar work issues are going to just go away one day. Becuase of this, I’m way too hard on myself when I can’t ‘get my act together.’\u00a0 Nine years of hard work to finally realize- this is it! I think I’m at my work apex in terms of bipolar- in other words, all I can do (and it’s what I now do) is work around my mood swings and do my best.\u00a0 I never have trouble with appointments such as with my coaching clients, but it’s the\u00a0 nebulous stuff I find hard! Thus, one of my tips is to have places you must be and clients you must see.\u00a0 It’s not about quality of work at all!<\/p>\n I am lucky if I can work 25 hours a week. You probably think I work more! I just do all I can on the days when work is pretty easy. Today, bipolar is being kind to me and I’m going to work as much as possible!<\/p>\n I hope to offer encouragement to all people with bipolar disorder: we CAN work, we just have to find out what WORKS BEST for us!<\/p>\n Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is what I’ve learned regarding bipolar disorder and work. <\/p>\n 1. It’s hard to work when you have mood swings. So, decreasing the mood swings with a treatment plan (I use my Health Cards system and my books to remind myself how to help myself!) will help you work more.<\/p>\n 2. Bipolar Disorder mood swings can be productivity killers. Especially the ADHD components of the illness. Mania is seemingly great for productivity- but only if you can harness it into real work!<\/p>\n 3. Work abililty may not get better, but YOUR ability to work around your mood swings and the other odd stuff that bipolar throws at you can get much, much better.<\/p>\n So, here I am. <\/p>\n I was diagnosed in 1995. Didn’t get relief from meds- in fact they made me worse as I was given anti depressants like candy! When I created the Health Cards, I was able to work a [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11714,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions\/11714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}