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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow
I have, without a doubt, severe bipolar I. I've had the diagnosis for many years and all my doctors agree and are quite firm about this. BPI with dysphoric mania and frequent mixed episodes.
Somehow I left the hospital with a lab order saying I was there for severe recurrent MDD. I did have severe recurrent depression in the context of bipolar but I am definitely bipolar. I don't know if this was an error or if the resident who I thought was so great wasn't or what but I can't wait to see my pdoc Monday to find out why they would even consider changing things at this point.
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Hm. You know yourself better than anyone else does, but I'll try to rationalize the hospital's thought process.
There is such a thing as "psychotic depression". See here:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/...cle/000933.htm
You do not have to be bipolar to experience psychotic depression. In fact, "psychotic depression" is a subtype of major depression and it looks a lot like a mixed episode.
If you do not experience mania by itself, then it's possible you *do* have MDD, psychotic depression subtype. I think that's the hospital's logic.
So... it may not be a mistake at all.
If ADs make you manic, then you're probably bipolar.