I'm so sorry you're going through this. I hope you can find a way to move forward and pursue the creative career(s) you desire.

As for me, just about every time I've left a job it's been because of hypomania or depression. This has happened often enough that my resume is a mile long. In order to make it shorter, I have to cut out several jobs I've had in my field.

It's very frustrating. I work in healthcare and have worked in a couple of famous hospitals, which most likely got me my current job, but I feel like anyone looking at my resume will think that I am, at best, unreliable. And they're right. And also, just because I've worked in well-thought-of hospitals, doesn't mean I thrived there. But there are assumptions, and I benefit from them.

I don't have many friends, or much family, but I finally have a therapist for the first time in a very long time. I'm hoping that if I decide on a whim that I want to leave my current job, which I really like, she will be a voice of reality/reason for me. If I need to take time off to get well, then so be it. But leaving and starting over is, too often, not the best answer.