I don't think you are in denial but I have this vision with all these balloons. Each with a different symptom and a bunch of buckets below. So now I see you grabbing the balloons and trying to stuff them in the appropriate bucket. But sometimes the same symptom belongs in multiple buckets and often they float out. Very hard to keep them in the buckets without something holding them down. A DSM maybe?

The point I'm making is they are labels that grow and change every couple of years. There are meds that are used for bipolar but I can't think of any that are used exclusively for bipolar. They only treat symptoms anyway. So what symptoms are you most interested in controlling through meds?

One thing I can caution about antidepressants is they can cause mood switching. Your hypomania may have been caused by the ad's. Some people will tell you that's a "sign" but that is just illogical, IMO. That's why I stress looking more at symptoms and what really matters to control right now vs what changes in your lifestyle you can make to help long term.

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