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Aug 13, 2011, 02:41 AM
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Member Since: Mar 2011
Location: USA
Posts: 12,851
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Today marks 22 days in a row that I have not been bothered by depression. This hasn't happened for years. I used to go up and down. Then for some years now my diagnosis got changed from bipolar to Major Depressive Disorder. They've gone back and forth on it. A pdoc who treated me for 6 years told me on my last conversation with him that "I really do think you are bipolar." Then I got a letter in the mail saying that he would not continue to be my doctor.
It seemed like me getting upset and irritable with him was what made him make that statement. Though he sounded like he really believed it. So I'm coming here to those who apt to know the ins and outs of being bipolar.
Do pdocs tend to regard bipolar disorder as something they tend to dagnose when they feel a patient is getting to be too frustrating to deal with? Then I was told I had Bipolar II, then it was called cyclothymia. (That sounded realistic.) Then an Advanced Pratcice Nurse at a new place I went to insisted that I was bipolar. Then the pdoc at where I go now seems to not thnk so. He said it was Major Depressive Disorder.
I've become fascinated with cleaning my apartment. This really feels like hypomania, which I believe I've had recurrent episodes of all my life. I sure feel great when I get them, and boy do I get all sorts of things accomplished. I haven't had a high-energy, hardly need to sleep mind set, like this, in a long time. I feel younger.
Do any of you know: Is it hard for a pdoc to sort out if a person has bipolar verses something else? I don't get real manic, don't lose contact with reality . . . but I sure get full of a mighty zest for life,
So I'm wondering if I may be on the bipolar spectrum, somewhere. (????) How I feel just seems too good.
Anyone here been diagnosed and undiagnosed with bipolar disorder? What are they looking for?
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