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Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse
I once worked for a company whose corporate nurse consultant found out about my bipolar, and she told me "Your work performance is consistent with your diagnosis". It was probably true, but she didn't need to put it that way. Soon after this, I was fired. Hope it turns out better for you than it did for me.
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Sorry to hear that
Your experience is exactly why I'm paranoid of telling anyone at work. I'll likely get treated unfairly and possibly fired. And it's all because of sheer ignorance on people's part.
People are just so heartless. We have feelings too!
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Originally Posted by Icare dixit
Keep expectations as low as possible—at all times.
If you finish work before the deadline, start on new work and push/upload work to the server (or similar) just before the deadline.
Never ever raise expectations higher than absolutely necessary. That's rule number one. BP or not.
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Yeah, I suppose that's true.
I guess it's tricky when bonuses are involved. It's like, I want a great bonus, but I also don't want to work so hard that people have extremely high expectations of me.
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Originally Posted by Bigmike727
I wouldn't advise telling your boss about BP, atleast based on my experiences. Most people don't understand and don't care to understand really. No matter what episode I'm in though my work ethic is still high, which is why some people term me "high functioning" which I hate to hear as it implies some people with the illness have it worse than others. Far as I am concerned, all MI sufferers are in the same boat no matter the diagnosis, I say that to mean we all have to deal with people who don't understand or don't care to understand, discrimination, etc. That is why communities like these are so important, it provides a solid support foundation, especially for people with judgemental communities like mine where there is little support.
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Yes, I dislike the term "high functioning" as well. A better way to put it (in my opinion) is to say that some people have better coping skills than others.
Using the term "skills" implies that everyone is still in the same boat. However, some people do have more severe BP symptoms than others, which means that they require greater coping skills, and sometimes it's just too difficult to develop those skills, hence disability. But more severe symptoms doesn't imply your situation is any worse than others'. BP is still BP no matter how you look at it.