Bipolar Burnout and Resource Frustration 1 of 2

UPDATE: Just made appointment (for 5/20) with a mental health place to see if I qualify for a case manager, someone to help me with the very things I am having trouble with, also to go to a day program to relearn independence skills such as budgeting. Will let you know how it goes!
Two topics going on here: This is what happens when you try too hard for too long and how it feels to have too much but not enough to qualify for resources to become independent.

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• burnout

[LeeAnne2001]

After going through an apartment fire the city gave me a very very brief stay at a hotel, then a list to homeless shelters. I have milder symptoms with bipolar but that period put me on the edge of sanity. Luckily I found an apartment fast, but it was a very stressful period. The government really should treat people in crisis with more dignity. It would probably cost less to just house me than to give me emergency services.

[PennyAnn25]

It's crazy, the thing that makes the most sense is the thing they make the most difficult to accomplish.

[saltyeggs71]

It seems you're between a rock and hard place with nowhere soft to land. Government support can be shitty. I hear you. I was going to be evicted when I was in a locked ward with my children put with strangers. I did nothing wrong yet I almost lost everything. I learned the world can be cruel. I also ran into some nice government workers that WERE nice and ,for now, I am in a stable position. I had to sneak away with no notice and not one belonging to escape my ex husband. Off to next video...

[PennyAnn25]

I just made an appt with a mental health place to maybe get a case worker to help me with these things. I hope I qualify & it is what I am looking for.

[LeeAnne2001]

which is nuts because it keeps you crazy.