Hi, Mary Alice...

Congrats on your new position. I think things are going to work out fine for you.

For years I worked as a musician, travelling around making music. When I settled down I got a job selling guitars and such in a music store. I thought, "This'll be easy--not many people know more about guitars than I do--piece of cake"! I was friendly and outgoing, people tend to trust me, no problem, right?

Of course there was, or I wouldn't be writing this,<lol> I didn't know how to ask someone to buy something. I would talk them to death, hoping they would buy the guitar, but I wouldn't close the sale. Eventually I learned, though, and became one of the top guitar and pro sound sales guys in the Midwest.

My point, of course, is that you can learn to conquer your new shyness to upsell your customers...that's just a skill aquired by practice. It's also a skill you cannot practice if you are beat-up run-over depressed or bouncing off the walls manic.(That's why I'm not the ace guitar sales guy anymore).

So, I would encourage you to stay on your meds at least for awhile. You CAN achieve your goals if you stay on them. If you stop, chances are very high that you will not.

I hope this is helpful, one way or another...you are in my thoughts. Good luck!

DJ

PS. In case you're wondering, now that I've been stable for a while, I'm going to get back in to music and music retailing. On meds. DJ