It's been a month and a half since I got diagnosed with Bipolr II. I have always been impulsive (sliding down a fire pole, drunk and shattering my foot or throwing a $30,000 EKG defibrillator out of the back of an ambulance because it failed on a critical patient of mine). I just always thought the mania was normal. It was the depression that brought me in to the therapist. I couldn't get out of bed for days at a time. And when I would, it was to go to Target and blow my entire paycheck on things I franky didn't need.
So a month ago, I broke up with my boyfriend, and though I was sad about the break-up, I was not depressed over it. We make better friends than lovers. However for two days after the break up I couldn't stop crying. Amd I'm talking couldn't breath, chest pain causing crying. On the phone with him, he kept asking what the heck was wrong with me and all I could tell him was I had no idea. This worried him, my parents, my best friend. I went to my primary care doctor, who sent me to the ER for a psych eval. After speaking with the doc in the ER we came to the conclusion that it wasn't the break up, it was everything else. My finances are a wreck due to the manic spending, I was living in a difficult situation with a difficult roommate, I failed two of my classes because I didn't want to get out of bed. It was like the world came crashing down. I left the ER with a diagnosis of bipolar II and a referral to mental health.
I started seeing my psychiatrist two days later, was put on lithium and Celexa. And things are better. I'm working through somethings. I have food days and bad days. They have changed my antidepressant to lexapro after I had some really bad days recently.
So I guess this is more or less an introduction. I've never really posted to anything like this before. So this is the beginning of my story and it's Nice to meet you all.