Hi everyone, I'm new here. My symptoms started when I was a sophomore in college and I was diagnosed with depression. They cleared up extremely quickly after I started taking Prozac, which I was on for about a year. Two years after that, I became extremely depressed again with some delusions and lost a major fellowship because of that, which really scarred me. I was given Prozac again because the psychiatrist thought I had depression, but that induced a severe manic episode last weeks, which caused me to do A LOT of embarrassing things and eventually end up in the ER. That was a year and a half ago and it has been a long struggle to regain my confidence after the damage I did to my future career/reputation, but I am finally starting to feel better, after having fit in well and gotten a 4.0 in my first semester in a pretty competitive graduate school. I'm still angry at some of the discriminating (is that a word?) attitudes towards me from a few people who witnessed my manic episode and found out about my condition. That's probably my biggest challenge right now.

I think this is a wonderful site, and want to say thanks to the doctor who started it. I hope I can get some useful advice here from people who have had similar experiences and that I can be helpful to others as well. I think with my two years of hell, I have hopefully racked up some street cred....