My initial reaction when I was 18 was disbelief. I thought at the time that bipolar was over diagnosed and that people got dxed with it for the smallest reason. And at the time I had never experienced a happy mania that I knew of so I was like how can I be bipolar, I never get happy. I didn't know about mixed episodes at the time. Then I had ECT, worked through childhood trauma, and thought myself cured. It wasn't until 2013 when I had my first euphoric mania that I thought there might be some truth to the dx for me. Now I believe I have it. I've had euphoric manias and psychosis, med induced and natural. There's no denying it any more.