I was diagnosed with MDD in my early 20s. I have strongly showed some key traits of BP ever since I was 12, but I did manage, albeit poorly at times. At 25 I was hospitalized. When I reached my fourties, the mood swings became unmanageable. I crashed several times and lost jobs. Only then was I properly diagnosed as BP. This is several doctors later, all who were clueless until I met the right doctor.

So this means I have been misdiagnosed for over fourty years, and it took several major disruptions to my life before I was properly diagnosed by a doctor on my first visit with him. God, don't I like the caliber of health professionals out there! LOL

BTW my current pdoc is very good.