I need some advice about job interviewing. I've been on SSDI for a year and a half for bipolar disorder and want to return to work someday. I am attending a trade certification program to better myself and my skills. (CNC machining)

I have been on job interviews where they have asked about gaps in employment, which I have a few, a couple of years length each, and some part time jobs which were short lived. I wasn't fired from any of them. I left because of various reasons, sometimes because of depression and dissatisfaction with the job. At this point it just looks like I won't stick with anything, and I feel like the interviewers know it.

The two most serious gaps started because of being under-medicated because of bad psychiatric care. I started to become manic, then psychotic, and no one could or would do anything forceful to keep me under doctor's care and keep me on medicine. So the last time, it was a couple of years of psychosis and mania without any treatment.

My first question is, how do I address this question: "Why did you leave your last job?" I left because I was paranoid about secret government CIA conspiracies and the stress it was causing me. Not a good answer right?

And another question is "what did you do in the time you were unemployed?" Uh, I rode my bike around all over town thinking NASA was spying on me with satellites and I sang out loud sometimes. I also wrote bizarre, not entertaining screenplays.

What are your thoughts on this? I have hunted the web and there are few sites that even approach this specific problem.

I currently deal with chronic hopelessness and depression, and am on effective medication (tegretol, abilify, trazodone, wellbutrin).

Thank you for your input.