Yeah "friends" that belittle you .... Are NOT friends. I would remove them from my life.. I have enough Bipolar stuff to bring me down I dont need stupid people to increase it.

Its tough to decide if you can handle work at this time or not.. Maybe a good question to ask your T and Pdoc.

Getting SSI or SSDI depending on what you qualify for can be tough.. But if you have lots of documentation from Pdocs and T's it does usually speed thing along to a degree.

Bipolar does indeed just Suck, sometimes more than others.