There is a movement to include patients made manic with AD part of the Bipolar classification.

When I had depression, I'd come out of it feeling really good. I always thought this euphoria was because the body was "making up" for being depressed! Lol

So I'd end up just reporting the depression. I got prescribed Welbutrin, but it didn't help at first, so the GP increased my dose. I started getting out there, but it also made my depression worse, so I'd get another dose increase.

I finally went to a pdoc, and what did he do? Once again my dose got increased. At this point I was taking 300 mg. I was now bouncing hard, sometimes 3-4 switches in an hour, one minute I'd be laughing, the next crying, and then laughing again. All in all, it screwed up 2 years of my life.

I finally said "hey, I'm bipolar" and got put on stabilizers. I stabilized on the depressed side, so we fine tuned the AD to where I feel normal today. I've been here for almost a year now.

But with the discovery of the DID, I'm wondering how much of my mood change isn't bipolar? Any how, it's something that y'all need to work out hun. Good luck!