EXACTLY. And you want to be stable for a while before starting work. Imagine you're not stable, and suddenly a job opportunity comes along, but you're not in the right frame of mind to take advantage of it. I guarantee you would regret it. Or imagine you get a job, you start monday, and you have a weekend to get yourself stable and fix your sleep, etc. It's much less pressure to start a new job when you've been stable for a while.

I'm pretty stable too, so we can be misfits together. I'm taking my meds every day, and I've been remarkably stable. So instead of asking for help, I'm mostly researching meds and answering peoples' questions. Maybe you could do the same? It feels good to give back by supporting/helping other people in need on this board.

One thing about being stable is I kind of think maybe I wasn't bipolar after all. Maybe I was making it up, or I was misdiagnosed. I think I'm faking it, that I'm a charlatan among all these people who are clearly suffering right now. Do you feel the same way? It's like I need to be unstable and suffering to 'prove' to myself that I'm really bipolar, or something. It's silly, isn't it?