I certainly did.
Do you get effective medications for it? I myself had anxiety, OCD and depression from age 12.. After trying some different meds, they found out I was bipolar. For the past 3 years I've had nothing but moodswings, but now that they've found the true diagnosis I'm finally getting the right help. I used to get antidepressants for depression + OCD, but they made me slightly manic (hypomania) and then worsened the depression afterwards..
Now, I sometimes felt like I lost my identity, especially when depressed, but I always regained it after being sick. I know there is hope for you.
Get as much help from books, medication and psychiatrists as you can, I'd say. Be careful to pick the right medicine.
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BIPOLAR II, OCD, ADHD
Two young fish meet an elder fish, who goes: "morning, boys. How's the water?". Swimming away, one fish says to the other: "what the **** is water??!!"
It is about awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: "This is water, this is water."
- Wallace
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