For 9 years, my dx has been recurrent major depression and PTSD. But for the last few months, and especially the last 6 weeks or so, I have had such different feelings than just plain depression.

So I read the symptoms, and I took both the bipolar and mania quizzes, and I scored off the charts on both of them. I have been feeling like my meds have just quit, and I have all these new feelings I don't know what to do with.

Is it possible, after years of being plain-vanilla depressed, to switch over to bipolar? Because I've never dealt with this so severely before. I'm speeded up and lethargic at the same time. I don't have the grandiose feelings or anything, but my brain is going a million miles a minute and I have either more energy than I ever remember having, or none at all. (For example -- Saturday I was up at 6 a.m., and by 11 a.m. I had done laundry, dishes, vacuumed, grocery shopped, gone to the library, gone to the post office, and gotten gas. Sunday? I didn't even get dressed.)

I'm just confused, and I can't see a pdoc till jan. 3, which only sounds not so far away if you aren't living in my head right now!

Just curious. When I was inpatient a couple of years ago, the hospital pdoc suggested to mine (who didn't do inpatient) that I might be bipolar II, but that doesn't seem to be fitting me here, and my pdoc never really gave it any credence. But I seriously have felt over the last several weeks that I am going absolutely 100 percent totally insane.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Candy