I'd frequently talked about my memory impairment with my psychiatrist. It was only when I mentioned that I was going to seek out a neurologist that he finally, I suppose, realized how concerned I was with the issue. It was then that he told me that there was a correlation between bipolar and impairment with working memory.

I also generally never missed work when I was working. Even on days when I was holding on by my fingertips, those days when depression had dragged me to the bottom of the sea, I still went to work because taking one day off of work wouldn't have solved anything. Really, all it would have done would have been to given me "extra" work on the day of my return, making up for the work I'd missed -- there wasn't anyone there that would have been able to fulfill my duties. Taking off work really was never really a good option.