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Old Sep 09, 2008, 12:03 PM
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Location: Pasadena, CA
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Originally Posted by trippinmickey View Post
Sometimes I feel like im the only one out there who cant work .I cant get my head togetter long enough. Things I use to be able to do like read ,spell ,math or simple find may way home are very hard to do at sometimes I worked full since ive been 15 and at 35 was making a great living in sales the the bottom fall out and what use to be my strenth my bipolar which aloud me to work 7 days aweek and come home and take care of my kids well my wife work became evil and for the past 7 years life has been a nightmare! Where once I use to wont to live forever now the thought of death brings me peace .What a change! Im on SSD and dont know if ill ever get off I still havent put togetter one good month .I use to love work it was fun and exciting now the thought of just going outside someday scares the **** me ,I cant even drive anymore on bad days i forget to stop at stop signs and red lights or manic days I drive like im in a race it got so bad I had to stop.

I wont to go back to work but im not the same person or to say it better i dont have the same skills I use to .So now im a stay at home dad which i love but there are somedays I dont feel well and it takes everything I have just to get though the day .I feel so bad that im cheating my kids .
Its amazing what I use to take for granted get up going to work comming home the feeling of having a good day look forward to my son baseball a week end party or holiday dinner now all things I rarely do.
I've been on disability before and it didn't take long for me to feel out of the loop. Everything is so fast now with very little on the job training it's sort of learn as you go which can be very stressful. Might I suggest that you try a volunteer position which would give you a chance to test the waters again, slowly? Or take a class for fun at the local college? Once you are around the environment of learning and working with people again, I bet your confidence and self-esteem will blossom. I've been there and done that. Hope is just a step away.