I had my first bout with mania and psychosis and ended up in inpatient (semi-involuntarily, allegedly I signed something but I was so knocked out on something > 5 mg of ativan that I don't remember almost any of it) via the emergency room at a regular hospital. After a day or two, a team of 10 doctors at my psych hospital met with me and they said "You have bipolar I. Do you know what that is?" and I got very annoyed (I was still manic) and I said "I'd rather be schizophrenic! I'd rather any diagnosis besides that..." and started listing all the reasons off why that couldn't be what I was. I would not wish learning your diagnosis that way on anyone...