monkeybrains21, you just reminded me, when I was a teenager, before I was diagnosed (though I'm sure I was bipolar back then too) I was working at a fast food restaurant, and I went through this period of time where if a customer was annoying, I would be really rude to them. Eventually, a customer complained to my manager, but the manager didn't believe him because normally I'm such a nice and accommodating person.
Similar things happened when I was even younger, working the same fast food job, except I'd get annoyed at managers and coworkers. I got bullied by a manager who was having family troubles and took it out on others, especially this one woman I just clashed with.
And I was righteous about my job, the drive thru worked like an assembly line and when someone from the head store came in to observe for a day and started doing my job and we were supposed to work in tandem and bag every second order, I insisted on bagging every order and playing dumb when we had both bagged the same order, even though I knew full well what I was supposed to do.
I was just a kid, but geez, who told me I was the president?
Is that just normal work life? Getting annoyed at people and being a jerk in return? Yikes. I don't like it, I don't want to be that person.
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My Bipolar Poetry Anthology
Underneath this skin there's a human
Buried deep within there's a human
And despite everything I'm still human
I think that I'm still human
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