Hi everyone. I'm 29. It's been about 1.5 years since I'm acutely struggling, though I have been suffering from depression like 7 years ago.
I had two babies, one soon after the another that set me off to bipolar. At first I was misdiagnosed as postnatal depression. Then I realised I'm having manias and then came my bipolar diagnosis.
For a year I was on all kinds of medication - tried about 5 antidepressants, was sleepy carbamazepine and finlepsin, took depacote for most of the time, which made my gain weight too much.
Now I weaned myself off the meds, take vitamin D, fish oil, diet, do regular excercises, hope to be stable this way. Still regulary going to p-doc, don't dare to tell him I'm off the meds
Been in therapy for a year now, learned quit much to deal with my bipolar symptoms.