Hey folks! Just signed up for the forum.

After accumulating a big heap of diagnoses the last couple decades, I finally got diagnosed Bipolar-II (Rapid Cycling, With Anxious Distress and With Seasonal Pattern) right after my 34th birthday in August. Currently a few weeks into therapy and just got pulled off my first mood stabilizer (Olanzapine). Unfortunately it's moving into winter here in Oregon, so treatment's going to get a lot harder now that I'm moving out of a hypomanic episode and into my usual winter depressive episodes.

Previously I've been diagnosed with unipolar depression with seasonal pattern (I basically spend all winter depressed to one degree or another), adult ADHD, and panic disorder. I may have generalized anxiety disorder and/or social anxiety disorder too. Really, the things I struggle with most are depression and anxiety, especially the anxiety that comes along with my hypomania. (My hypomania otherwise is rather present!)

Disorders aside, I'm a freelance writer.