Hi.

I am new to this board, so you are my first post to reply to. I am a psychiatric nurse and I have bipolar disorder. There are many red flags that came up in your history that should be considered for an underlying bipolar diagnosis. There is a broad spectrum to bipolar disorders. You don't have to have full blown mania or hypomania to have a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Time will tell since you are only taking an antidepressant for now. I would stronly suggest starting a daily mood chart. Esp. track your hours of sleep. I also reccomend educating yourself on this disorder, so you know what to look for as far a cycling goes. There are many subtypes of bipolar disorder that overlap with unipolar depression. I hope this helps and good luck

Polarbear