Your phone has an "OFF" button. You should use it from time to time. You have a right to your own time!!

Let me tell you from my own experience as a nurse with anxiety and bipolar: NO JOB IS WORTH YOUR SANITY. I had to learn that the hard way this past spring, when the severe stress at my nurse-executive job wore me down to the point where I became too manic and too anxious to work. It was in the middle of preparing for a state re-survey, the pressure was intense, and I just crumbled.

My pdoc had been after me for months to leave this position and find something a little lower-key, but I thought I knew better. Was I ever wrong......when I finally lost it, he gave me the choice between taking time off or going inpatient. I was out for almost a month on medical leave, then promptly fell apart two hours after I walked back into the building. They let me go three days later, claiming they "couldn't" make the accommodations my doctor requested for me to help me stay in my job.

That sent me into a mixed episode of epic proportions, and again I came close to being hospitalized. And frankly, this event pretty much ruined me as a nurse; now I can't even do floor work, let alone management. All I can handle now are admissions and some quality-assurance paperwork---nothing that requires me to think fast on my feet, or stay on task when I'm being bombarded with distractions.

That's why you should quit while you're ahead---BEFORE the mania and anxiety push you over the edge. This job is killing brain cells that you'll never get back......and our disorder also causes damage over time, to say nothing of the meds we take to try to control it.

CNAs are in demand in long-term care (nursing homes), assisted living, and hospitals among other places. There HAS to be a better job for you. Don't let this one drive you crazy!! (((HUGS)))