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tegansmama
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Well as a short introduction.. My name is Lea and I have bipolar disorder. I have a 1yr old daughter who is disabled. I'm thinking of taking driving lessons and getting a license etc to make things easier for us as I don't drive atm.
I was looking online and I saw it said that some people with bipolar aren't allowed a license. I was just asking some advice.. Is it worth me even applying? Do any of you who have bipolar drive? I feel really crappy about it now, learning to drive was on of the only things I was looking forward to and now I've found out that I might not be able to do that either..
I wouldn't consider myself a real risk, I have good traffic awareness, I hallucinate quite often but I know I'm doing it and normally if I'm in a car my 'person' sits at the side of me, doesn't gallump around in the road.. I know my hallucinations will go against my favour and it says you need to have been out of a manic episode with no re-occurrence for 3 months (I think) on the DVLA website (sorry I'm assuming most of you are from the UK). It does mention something about a special report being written by your psychiatrist - I suppose I could ask her to write me one?
So, hello everyone.
I was looking online and I saw it said that some people with bipolar aren't allowed a license. I was just asking some advice.. Is it worth me even applying? Do any of you who have bipolar drive? I feel really crappy about it now, learning to drive was on of the only things I was looking forward to and now I've found out that I might not be able to do that either..
I wouldn't consider myself a real risk, I have good traffic awareness, I hallucinate quite often but I know I'm doing it and normally if I'm in a car my 'person' sits at the side of me, doesn't gallump around in the road.. I know my hallucinations will go against my favour and it says you need to have been out of a manic episode with no re-occurrence for 3 months (I think) on the DVLA website (sorry I'm assuming most of you are from the UK). It does mention something about a special report being written by your psychiatrist - I suppose I could ask her to write me one?

So, hello everyone.