yes it is a relief, it is so nice to be listened to and actually HEARD because in the beginning, my psychiatrist said I just had uni-polar depression because my manic "don't really last long enough. Usually they last from a couple hours to all day... but sometimes I rapid cycle and it (my mania) only lasts a few minutes, which he said was "very atypical" because "usually mania lasts longer."

He just asked me my symptoms and stuff and with the new info he said it definitely sounded like type 1 Bipolar instead of uni-polar depression which he said is often misdiagnosed because of the depressive states of it. But because I am having major mood swings and stuff, he diagnosed me as Bipolar.