I lost my last job because I wasn't allowed to do that---some days I could barely drag my butt to work, and others I was so manic that people shouldn't have had to deal with me. The rest of the time I was perfectly capable of handling things.
But on those occasions when I was in bad shape, I'd probably have survived if only I could have shut off the ringer on the phone and locked my office door for a few hours. In fact, when I had my breakdown and was going back to work, my pdoc asked for that accommodation and I was denied. I couldn't perform my job without it, so I got fired.
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DX: Bipolar 1
Anxiety
Tardive dyskinesia
Mild cognitive impairment
RX: Celexa 20 mg
Gabapentin 1200 mg
Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM
Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN
Lamictal 500 mg
Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression)
Trazodone 150 mg
Zyprexa 7.5 mg
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