blue - She did explain it to me. She spent a long time explaining it to me in all honesty because I kept on arguing with her (I'm too old to have it, it was just anxiety, it was a one time thing, etc., in regards to my psychotic break last year). She said it was because I clearly have mood fluctuations. I was hospitalized once because of a bad reaction to sertraline and it made me manic (to which I argued was just a side effect!), one time for PPD, third time for my psychotic break episode that mimicked a manic episode, and the fourth time for a sui attempt.

She just kept on explaining this mood thing to me and how I've had periods of depression and then periods of an elevated mood and the psychosis and everything is just a part of my bipolar, and my anxiety is part of it too.

I don't know. Just blah blah blah.

I realize my psychiatric history is lousy.

She said not everyone experiences bipolar the same way. Not everyone does the same exact things during mania.