I am also going for a diagnosis. I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child, and I worked a lot on treating it when I was an adult, I still struggle with it, but recently I began to suspect I was bp. Since then I have been doing everything in my power to research and learn about it and I am more and more convinced that I am. Of course I understand that that is on the therapist, and I am going to see two of them this week. We'll see. Regardless of how it comes out, I have all of the symptoms, including and especially the cyclical quality. I take these quizzes and at the end the computer is like 'dude, you are probably bipolar, go see a therapist', and I am reading a lot about it and it is all so resonant. It's an interesting thing, I accepted ADHD, but it never resonated, there is a sadness or some kind of vulnerability and passionate quality that you find in these threads that is extremely resonant for me. Considering this matter, gaining the frame for my experience and participating in this community has been so important and really moving and healing for me. Perhaps I will NOT be diagnosed with bp... In which case I will miss the bp forum...
Anyhow, that was a rambling share, good look to the person who started this thread!
Soon...
MT