I, for one, have not come to terms with my unemployment status. It actually makes me feel like a huge loser. Bipolar was a huge reason for most of my adult life, but, now that I'm stable, I'm finding my social issues (social anxiety and general lack of people skills) and general motivation problems (which I think is medication related; I'm going to bring it up with my pdoc on Friday) to be hugely inhibiting.

In truth, as lame as it may sound, my dream, if you will, is to merely be able to hold down a steady job like any "regular Joe." My old therapist was working on my social issues with me, but she left to go work elsewhere and my current therapist really just has me on 30 min check-in sessions to make sure my bipolar is in check, every 3 months or so.

I heard about some cool (at least in my mind) job gassing up and cleaning trash trucks a while back. But looking more recently, I can only find such job openings out of state and, being chronically unemployed, I cannot afford to look into such things right now.