...and new to this site, and the whole concept of forums in their entirety.

I was recently diagnosed with bipolar 2, and it is not so much the diagnoses itself that I need support and talk to someone about its the stigma, the fear surrounding sharing that information with friends and family, and the fact that I don't feel like I have anyone to talk to who understands.

I am finding quickly that not everyone goes from cranky to irritable to full out hulk smash in a matter of minutes like I do. Nor do they lose their job in one state, slip into a hypomanic state, sell everything they own and move to another state three days later, leaving their cat behind and becoming homeless in San Francisco for two weeks. Nor do they come home from work and cry themselves to sleep or end up in the hospital because their psychiatric provider prescribed them citalopram with their lamotrigine for depression and anxiety symptoms and it backfired so greatly that they ended up in a hospital on the bathroom floor screaming and crying at the nurse because the nurse wanted them to put on a hospital gown.

These arent things my family or friends have had to deal with. And unfortunately the ones that have, are gossips, and cannot be trusted with this information.

I desperately need some peer support, and a huge as hug.

Its been a long couple of months since my diagnoses in October 2014.

K