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Old Mar 07, 2014, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Happy Camper View Post
I came to the doctors saying I thought I was bipolar. They diagnosed me bipolar 1 because they thought I was having a mixed episode (which at the time wasn't considered indicative of anything else). The meds made me far worse; mood, cognition, and ambition all took a dive. I went back and they said I don't sound bipolar at all, so they changed my diagnosis to mood disorder nos, and now I'm waiting for a neuropsych exam.

The one strange thing is that I did have a 4 month period of delusions, but my obsessive compulsiveness kept me from trying to deliver my message to the world until it was perfect, and after 1000+ pages, I lost interest and shredded it all.
It would be a great idea to have the neuropsych test while not medicated at all. Effective medication can mask symptomatology. Two of my recent neuropsych evals show nothing on Axis I, apparently because Lithium masks the bipolar. If you are not taking anything, you will get a true, unadulterated reading.

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