I fought long and hard for my diagnosis. If my ex-pdoc had believed me when I first saw him at 17, walked into his office, sat down and told him I had bipolar disorder...well, can't change that now. But perhaps my life would have taken a very different course. (I wasn't diagnosed until I was 23 and hospitalized myself. Even then he didn't believe me so I fired him.) So yes, I believe the diagnosis.