I feel like I've had a fucked up hand of cards. Ultra conservative parents who think their kid is demonic and cursed, internalized so much with bipolar 2 and borderline schizophrenia, I've had to deal with people so often taking advantage of me.

It's been rough as fuck.

But now that I have this diagnosis as of half a year ago, fuck it. I'm using it to file for FML so i can call out from work whenever I want with no repercussions.

Sure, some of the call outs will be legitimately from episodes, even with medication. But honestly? If a friend wants to hang out and I don't want to work, I'm not going to show up. And I'm going to use my medical exemption.

It just feels like being bipolar had already given me such a disadvantage in life, if I can use that, albeit inappropriately, to make my life happier, I'm going to do it.