r/bipolar • u/Common-Series8622 • Jul 23 '25

Living With Bipolar What kind of job do you have?

Anyone have bipolar 1, had hospitalisaions for mania, and still have a job or career? Or been able to get through university? Wondering what jobs work well with the needs we have

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u/DualBladesOfEmotion Bipolar Jul 23 '25

This article has a list of jobs that they look at through several lenses and categorize as “good” or “bad” for people with Bipolar brains.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/jobs-for-people-with-bipolar

Ironically, I’m a teacher, and it says that’s one of the worst jobs to have with a Bipolar brain. Go figure 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Common-Series8622 Jul 24 '25

Thats amazing that you are a teacher. Thank you for sharing - it’s a lot of responsibility to be influencing the future generation. I wish you well. Thank you so much for the statistics and news article as well, it’s enlightening to see information about employment for us. This brings me hope

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u/DualBladesOfEmotion Bipolar Jul 24 '25

Gotta tackle this disease with everything we’ve got. It’s taken a lot of people that were way stronger than I’ll ever be.