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Well that sucks - I wrote a long first reply and did it wrong so it just disappeared. This will be eons shorter (probably to your benefits!).
I'm a 33 year old mother to an almost 5 year old and 2 1/2 year old, married for close to 9 years.
For a while I was diagnosed as severely depressed but about 5 months ago was changed to a bi-polar and ADHD diagnosis, barely meeting the diagnostic criteria for both. My "manic" phases are nearly impossible for me to identify and my counselor doesn't know my history well so it's hard for her to know if I had others other than the one she "witnessed". I have a friend who is a counselor which specializes in things like this and she was actually the first to suggest bi-polar and believes she can identify manic phases from earlier in my life as well.
Anyway, it took what felt like forever to find a good med combo for me - probably because I was trying meds for depression for 9 months before switching to meds for bi-polar and then it took another 3 months before anything helped. However, now I've been on a combo we think is working for about 2-3 months and I feel like I almost have my life back.
It's been hard on my husband, but he's been there with me through it all. I'm new here and completely overwhelmed by this site so any advice on where to start would be greatly appreciated!
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