Forced semi-retirement
Hi, I’m a retiree that’s not ready to be one yet. I’m struggling with bipolar and generalized anxiety and it required me to have a board buy out a contract I’d been able to renew annually for 21 years and enjoyed fulfilling. With this disease, without medicine i get energy filled anxiety, and/or overconfidence that ends up putting me in bad situations, or major depression that takes me down into despair that life isn’t worth living. The medicine keeps me able to prevent for a time going all the way in one direction or another, or at least gives us a heads up so my wife can help me recognize and try to ameliorate the symptoms. The drugs come with a side effect I hate like poison, but I’ve tried dozens and have decided this one comes with the disease for me, 25 years of treatment and the side effect is the more common theme than relief! Having said all that, I get my respites and a chance to try to slowly make progress toward my dream of being self sufficient once again , and hopefully pull myself from this paltry sum we’re struggling to live on, even with my wife’s constant overtime. Holding on through Trump and praying he doesn’t leave my family behind, most of them absolutely require social security and/or VA and/or Medicare for their basic needs, and I do mean basic, they’re done for if those programs are cut. Fight this BS, eliminate tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, not support programs for those who made this country the economic powerhouse it now is. Last I checked billionaires and corporations are doing just fine, my family of veterans and aging folks relying on SS are now worried about homelessness. That’s wrong any way you look at it.
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