Agreed about not worrying about being bipolar. It is what it is, and the only thing you can do is plan around it and develop heuristics that make the most sense

Agreed about not worrying about being bipolar. It is what it is, and the only thing you can do is plan around it and develop heuristics that make the most sense, considering. That said, the problem isn't with the overall thinking patterns, the problem comes when the mood swings are at their worst. When I'm at my worst, there's effectively nothing I can do. My heuristic models are still observable and workable, but they fall apart from absurd rationalizations. I feel that this is the reason why bipolar has such a high suicide rate, particularly with type II over I. The career aspects are very interesting. My career has been very well so far. I'm 27 and I've managed to hold many respectable positions and have a few potential and very dissimilar positions in the running. Algorithmic trader, senior infrastructure engineer, data scientist and security engineer. I'm not entirely sure what aspect of my mental model allowed these things to happen, but I don't think these options would've been possible without bipolar and its comorbids. I think it's difficult to accept (not necessarily stop worrying) your own mental health condition depending on what stage you're at in your understanding. For example, if you just received a diagnosis, how do you accept it when you haven't had enough time to build up an understanding? It's something that takes time and it's something that needs to be emphasized that's often not.