Hey, I'm new here and you guys are probably tired of the "could I be bipolar?" threads, but I could really use your help. No one knows what's wrong with me. I've been diagnosed with almost everything. I'm starting to wonder if I could be bipolar. I've been depressed since I was a teenager. For about a week (or less) every few months I get kind of wacky. This started happening to me about 3 years ago. I'm 22 years old. Sometimes this happens for like four days in one month. There's no definite cycle. It happens randomly.

I apply for all kinds of jobs, take way more classes than I can handle, think I'm the smartest/sexiest/most awesome/[insert random quality here] person in the world, stay up all night and meet a ton of people (I'm kind of an antisocial snob so that's way out of character.) I woke up one morning and decided to join the Air Force... and got kicked out 3 years later. I cheated on and lost the best person that was ever in my life. I hooked up with a ton of strangers. I got arrested. I broke some guy's window with my fist because he pissed me off. I raced my secret lover on the highway going 120mph at 3am. I have many more stories...

I described these symptoms to my psychiatrist and he diagnosed me with mood disorder NOS. He said that I couldn't be diagnosed as bipolar because my manic episodes weren't long enough and they happened far too often. Was he right or wrong? Should I get a second opinion? I do have ADHD and this could be a sign of poor impulse control I guess... I suspect bipolar because I'm not a window breaking psycho all of the time.