Hi Gloria! I live with a bipolar disorder and I personally consider that being a nurse would be too stressful for me because you have to deal with a lot of people in your work. Communication with people makes me very tired. You'll have to deal with ill people who suffer - that's a stress for me. But on the other hand the thought that you are helping these ill people can be very helpfull for you. And I am afraid I can hurt someone when penetrating a vein with a needle. I also had problems with finding the right job for myself, suffered and went through a lot of stress from working at wrong places doing wrong things, even had to go to psychiatric hospitals twice in a state of depression. Now I work as a translator (written translations) and this is a perfect job for people with our illness. It's a job with minimum stress. But of course you need some talent for foreighn language. But! I know one girl who is not bipolar, but just depressive, she worked as a nurse and liked it. But now she works as a secretary, I don't know whyexactly she quit nursing, but I can ask if you want. Let me know. Hang on! I can imagine how hard it is to cope with our illness without a family. I could't survive without my mom's support.