Do you ever just get tired of working so hard all the time just to get to the same place as everyone else around you?

You work and you work and you work to get a step ahead, but then a manic episode or depressive episode sends you two steps backwards. Or you work and you work despite being in mental pain to do well in your classes - you had to drop one due to an episode - and then finally when you feel a lot better you think you can relax and enjoy life again, but then you have to make up the ground you lost when you were not 100% by working even harder.

It's just so unfair. Of course everyone else around you has their own stresses to deal with, but no one (that you know of) has this stupid condition dragging them down.

End of my complaint....