I was misdiagnosed for years.

I did a lot of reading and read all teh quizzes and thought I was probably BP. I had all the signs - high energy, fast talking, risk taking, creative bursts, etc etc.

I asked my doctor. She told me that was just my personality.

A couple of years later I had a cancer scare and she put me on antidepressants and I was flying on them. Then I had a car accident, and plummetted again, so she upped the dose. Then I had another car accident and she upped the dose again, and then I started rapid cycling, stopped sleeping and started hallucinating. She referred me to a specialist who promtly diagnosed me as BP2.

Doctors sometimes get it wrong. They're only human too.