There isn't a soul out there that knows your mind better than you do.

If you had a understanding of and handle on things before your dx, stick to them. Those coping mechanisms you have used often in the past are what's now hardwired in your brain and how you know to react to changes in your mood and behavior.

If these mechanisms begin to fail, you are unable to cope with and react positively to the changes, or you begin to feel like it is all becoming too much for you to handle on your own, that's when you go to the p-doc.

One of the greatest things I ever did in my ongoing path to recovery was to give up caring what other people that of me or my behavior. Their opinions on my condition no longer mattered, and I was free to use my own insight into my own mind to come up with the best solution to the troubles I was experiencing.

You now have a name and a definition to the way you have been feeling and behaving. Now you can own it, make it yours, and find new ways to defeat it.

Best wishes and good luck.