I have worked at my job for 6 years now. At the moment I work full time, but there were times when I took small leaves of absence or when I needed to cut my hours down a bit. Luckily my work has been quite flexible with me and if they weren't I don't think I would be there still. Some days I cry all the way to work, but when I get there I just have to stop and go in. Sometimes I have taken a cry break in the bathroom, not too often. When I am feeling hypomanic I always have to remind myself to turn my voice lower, to think about what i'm doing. I work with disabled people, and that helps me because I know those folks are depending on me to be there, and that my most of my coworkers work 2 jobs and they need me to be there or they can't leave. I was brought up that working the most important thing, and although I don't necessarily agree, I am very lucky that I base my self worth off of my work...because a lot of times there's not much else.