{"id":320,"date":"2012-07-09T23:12:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T06:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/08\/09\/bipolar-disorder-and-workschool-reader-comment\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:22","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-workschool-reader-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-workschool-reader-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder, Work and College"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Here is a wonderful comment from Gerry in Australia.\u00a0\u00a0Yes, you can work full time and go to school when you have bipolar disorder!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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G’Day all. I am new to the blog, but would like to say something positive on this issue which I hope will encourage everyone else with bipolar. I’m lucky because I don’t suffer from some of the worst symptoms of bipolar & also was rather old when I had my first psychotic episode. So before that I managed to get a BA with Honours & a Phd. Now I am a full time academic in Politics. It was only after working full time for 7 years that I discovered that I had bipolar. It does impact my work sometimes, but my Dept. has been very good about making some allowances. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I have published 2 books and many articles. I have learned Spanish and travelled to Latin America on my own to do field research on numerous occasions. <\/span><\/p>\n

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You too can succeed! <\/span><\/p>\n

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As a teacher who has studied all I can say:\u00a0 Go to “college” as you call it in the States.\u00a0 Go do it! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Gerry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"Here is a wonderful comment from Gerry in Australia. Yes, you can work full time and go to school when you have bipolar disorder! <\/p>\n

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G’Day all. I am new to the blog, but would like to say something positive on this issue which I hope will encourage everyone else with bipolar. I’m lucky because I don’t suffer from some of the worst symptoms of bipolar & also was rather old when I had my first psychotic episode. So before that I managed to get a BA with Honours & a Phd. Now I am a full time academic in Politics. It was only after working full time for 7 years that I discovered that I had bipolar. It does [ 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\/320"}],"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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11505,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/11505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}