I was originally diagnosed with Depression and GAD. I have mostly seen one psychiatrist who changed this diagnosis to Bipolar 2. I will soon be switching to another psychiatrist. I can see how visiting different professionals could give you all sorts of diagnosis. I'm honestly a little scared that, when I see the new psychiatrist, tat I will be diagnosed differently and taken on a whole different treatment course!

I think with mental illness being more like a spectrum, and the fact that bipolar involves a lot of overlapping symptoms of much of them, I feel as though all of my symptoms can be categorized under Bipolar 2. I have anxiety, panic attacks, very ADHD-like symptoms but I chalk it up to the #2, because they probably all share the same source.

I'm not saying that is a definite for everyone. It's just part of how difficult it is to say where one condition ends and another begins.