Hi everyone! I am new here. I have sought out a forum such as this one for one reason: I feel I have been misdiagnosed as bipolar. I have felt this way since I began treatment for bipolar 7 years ago. I know this is a common complaint amongst the bipolar community but I truly feel I am correct. Sure, I have a mood disorder but it's not due to a brain imbalance.

I diagnosed myself bipolar when I was a teen, and I scheduled an appt with a pdoc many years later. The thing that drove me in there was my constant unhappiness. My daughter was a year old and I didn't want her to grow up to be as crazy as I was. I held the belief that I was crazy and less worthy than others. I felt this could be cured with prozac.

I was given seroquel and lexapro, my functioning went down significantly and I began to receive SSD all within a year. I am worse off now than I was then. All these pills they put me on don't work. My pdoc wants to take me off pills for good because each and every type has horrible side effects. The last one is Busprione (correct??) and today will be my third day but I am skipping to see if my symptoms improve. Everytime I take it I get a pounding headache and sore throat. I am skipping today to see if I am getting sick or if it's the meds.

Can anyone sympathize? I am very certain of my misdiagnosis, but am uncertain of where to go from here.