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u/PunkRockMaestro · 5 pointsr/bipolar

One thing that is not communicated well enough is that BP leans to serious cognitive dysfunction at work and in social life. Hope is not lost, cognitive remediation has been shown to lead to improvements. That is, cognitive exercise and practice and focus on developing certain skills leads to increased outcomes.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171016132756.htm

https://www.amazon.com/Functional-Remediation-Bipolar-Disorder-Eduard/dp/1107663326

https://www.reddit.com/r/bipolar/comments/bk3c44/books_and_websites_for_bipolar_cognitive_therapy/

Basically the stress of episodes is neurotoxic for the brain, a lot of what you are experiencing is because of the brain adapting to all of this stress the best it can which is bad or unhelpful long term. A lot of this brain training remediation is just computer challenges, and they set up life situations for you to navigate, but basically you just have to keep trying to acclimatize yourself to the world and get good feedback and you can get better and better.

I would say take the position, make sure in the first few months you take extra care to take care of yourself and get good sleep etc, work through issues systematically, and it can be good for you. You can learn to think about things differently, and your brain can change so that you're less taxed. You definitely can't just keep coping how you are coping and do more, your brain needs to change, but with the stress state, cortisol, neuroplasticity isn't going to be easy, so you have to go at it from all angles, be willing to try new things.

Good luck!

u/outinthestix · 2 pointsr/bipolar

There's a twenty one week group thing called "Functional Remediation" that is (I think) still in trials.

In the meantime, give your profession a chance.

There's also this at Amazon from 2014 for whatever it's worth:
Functional Remediation for Bipolar Disorder