I've had depression and anxiety my whole life and had a rough childhood so my "quest" to go to doctors and go on meds started at 20 years old on my own. I got to the point where I couldn't handle the anxiety anymore so that's when I was put on my first antidepressant. I had been on at least 8 different meds until a new doctor told me I had bipolar 3 years ago and put me on Seroquel. I am now 36 and they want to switch me to Lithium.

None of the docs ever did a full evaluation even after I'd requested it. I kept changing docs and meds over these last 15 years because nothing worked. I still always felt off.

I stumbled across an article just this week called "ADD or Bipolar" and had some major realizations. I NEVER thought I would have ADD because both my son and husband have major ADHD and I just didn't see me that way. After reading this article, I did a lot of thinking and realized that I may just have been misdiagnosed all these years.

Has anyone ever dealt with this - both ADD and Bipolar or a misdiagnosis of either?