Purpose and content make for a happy bipolar girl in LA!

I have been feeling so much better these days. I feel like I have a purpose. I have something to do which has helped my self-esteem and my depression levels. Since the day that I had my first interview exactly one week ago, I felt so good about myself. Obviously the interview went more than well. My interviewer loved me. He loved me so much that he called me in for a second interview the very next day with two other supervisor's (one of which who is my current supervisor). The two supervisors loved me as well. It was like a whirlwind because the next thing I know its Monday and I am sitting in on my first day of their 200 hour intensive training program.

I must be on cloud nine because when I saw my interviewers, I didn't even recognize them initially. It took a second for it to register. I was still mentally at the interview and could not believe that I was at work already. I don't think that I will come off of cloud nine for awhile because the more I learn about the company the more and more I feel like I am dreaming. I have totally landed my dream job. The benefits are amazing. I thought that I had good benefits before when I worked at Nordstrom, but Nordstrom's benefits are a joke when you compare them to my new company.

Since I am now working in the travel industry, I can also finally have the opportunity to live out my travel dreams. My extravagant travel dreams I can now purchase at bargain basement prices. I am living a dream. I also have a normal and predictable work schedule so I can handle being a full-time student in addition to full-time employment. Purpose and content make for a happy bipolar girl in LA! I now see the light at the end of the tunnel and I also now know that it is possible for me to live a normal life. I simply had to make a few adjustments to the way that I was living and I am making it happen.

Genius, Creativity, and Bipolar Disorder

As for now, coasting at a steady speed. My concentration level is a little less than I would like it to be or the way it is when I am headed towards my manic state. I notice that I have to take more frequent breaks in between my reading. I prefer when I can continuously read as opposed to dragging the process out. I can fully understand why people actually enjoy their highs. They can be quite addicting. I think I am the most brilliant when I am manic. That is why all of the most creative and brilliant people are bipolar. Some the most talented celebrities are bipolar. These people include:

• Agatha Christie
• Albert Einstein
• Abraham Lincoln
• Buzz Aldrin
• Jim Carey
• Kay Redfield Jamison
• Jane Pauley
• Marilyn Monroe
• Ozzie Osbourne
• Plato
• Robin Williams
• Ted Turner
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Winston Churchill
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Hans Christian Anderson
• Jimi Hendrix
• Kurt Cobain
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Tim Burton
• Virginia Woolf
• Wolfgang Armadeus Mozart
• Thomas Stearns Elliot

I believe that there is most likely a correlation between intellect and bipolar disorder because the most talented people in their field tend to be bipolar. I mean come on, my hero Albert Einstein was bipolar! Where would we be without the theory of relativity? To be classified in a category with the people listed above is an honor in my opinion. Although we go through some serious mental struggles and we may have the propensity to harm ourselves we can look at this fact and feel a sense of honor almost. We are special. We are in a class of our own. I feel like I am apart of some elite club at times. A club that we were born into and birth rite is the only way you can earn admission. Although we are stigmatized by the rest of the world and sometimes shunned because of our mental illness, we have some advantage over them. So ha ha! Take that "normal people"!!

Here is a link to an interesting article on bipolar disorder and creativity: http://www.everydayhealth.com/bipolar-disorder/creativity-and-bipolar-disorder.aspx