Hi! I'm a 39 year old woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder 13 years ago (or 12 years ago, I really should know this). As a teenager I was diagnosed with depression and then "atypical depression" and saw some not so great therapists and took a lot of anti depressants.

I was diagnosed after being hospitalized after a suicide attempt. I was manic, crashed into depression and that happened. I recently moved to a different state to be with my boyfriend (previously a long distance relationship) and it's been very good for me. Except I'm having a depressive episode with anxiety.

I've taken various different medications but for the past several years it was just 200 mg of Seroquel. I didn't see the shrink often and wasn't in therapy (couldn't find a therapist I liked). Since moving I'm seeing a therapist (well actually 2, my first one here moved and now I'm seeing a new one).

I feel like I've been in a long slow slide into depression for awhile and it got triggered into something big. I'm currently taking the Seroquel but my pdoc added .5 mg of Klonopin to help me sleep and with the anxiety. He wants to see if relieving the anxiety relieves the depression. If it doesn't I'll start Celexa.

That's a lot of info.

Anyway I've never been married, no kids, currently unemployed (I was doign temp work but because of teh anxiety had to stop) and I'm a big geek.