Mandrec...

The reason I said this is because a licensed professional Pdoc told me to quit drinking for three months and don't come back to him before that. I was honest about my drinking to my Pdoc and I don't think most people are. But he said that drug use and alcohol use must be cleaned nd cleared away to see if those substances were causing the moods wings and if the mood swings were still occurring aft that to come back. I didn't like him telling me that but I knew it was true. I did what he said and still had major symptoms at which point he dxed me as Bipolar 1. I went to ten different pdocs to get different opinions and they all said the same thing. Bipolar1. I was in denial. I thought maybe it was just a problem with alcohol. Now I have two diseases bipolar 1 and alcoholism and I work very hard at staying sober nd stable. It sounds to me like you are a professional who knows about diagnosing. Are you? I certainly am not but I've been at this Bipolar/drug/alcohol or more commonly called dual diagnosis experience for 15 years.