I am going between relief, panicking about money, crying because I feel like a loser who can’t keep a ****ing job, and back to relief. I’m sure that’s a normal range of emotions for someone who just lost her job due to bipolar.

Bpnurse, I am going to file for unemployment anyway, as my state will sometimes grant it if you can prove you had a medical reason to resign. Two hospitalizations and two IOP programs for two months each ought to prove that.

As for ssdi, I’m just not there yet. I want to see if I can do a lower stress job first. If I fail at that, I will consider ssdi. I just know it’s not enough to live on really especially with rent here being $1500 on average. I really want to get out of my mom’s house and there’s no way I could do that on ssdi.