My first diagnosis for a mood disorder was depression, but that's because I lied on the ink blot test and all the other tests in the psychiatric hospital. I was scared to tell them I was having hallucinations and crazy mood swings when I was 15. When I was 20 they rediagnosed me as bipolar 1 with psychotic features after I was hospitalized. I recently been 90% honest and I'm getting rediagnosed with schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. It takes awhile to get things sorted out and you must not get discouraged by this process. For most diagnoses you have to show certain characteristics for a certain number of years. If a pdoc diagnosed you with something right off the bat it could be devastating.