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Originally Posted by jesusplay
I've seen many doctors medical and non-medical and they say I'm bipolar. It's been 2 years since I've had mania. Since medication I'm constantly depressed. Some days I feel better most or worse. Then randomly after months I'll get a "hypomanic" day, then a few days of feel normal afterwards.
People who know me don't think I'm bipolar because I'm just depressed. I literally sit in a dark room all day in my bed browsing the internet.
People tell me I can't be bipolar because I'm depressed all the time.
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Bipolar is either bipolar manic, or bipolar depressed. Yours may be the former. I have it too, because I kept swinging into depression. Last one I got paranoid, it was so bad. I thought it was a manic or mixed, but my t tells me it was depression in the bipolar scale. But my depression is linked to bipolar, not chronic depression.
People can be misdiagnosed for decades because they only went to get help when the depression hit. But the cycling in n out is classic bipolar. I'm on a mood stabilizer n it works in ways an antidepressant never could. My second day on it, I actually cried in relief n happiness.
I'm ok now. The relief overwhelms the stigma, IMO. It's a pretty common thing, IMO. So don't let shame rule you, it's such a stupid thing to be ashamed over, when there are do many good treatments out there that will let you live a life again...a real life.