Wanderlust, I know a website about this exact set of patients you wrote about! I'm one of them too!
Psycheducation.org
This website is how I found out about my bipolar. It talks about the bipolar spectrum and people whose bipolar looks different than typical bipolar.
My bipolar has NO euphoric hypomania. My hypomania is anxiety, irritability, panic, agitation, insomnia,
I have mixed bipolar disorder. I almost without exception have symptoms of both hypomania and depression at the same time. I also have ultradian rapid cycling bipolar. The link you posted said
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These two forms of bipolar disorder can often confuse the diagnostician and make identifying the problem different for even experienced mental health professionals.
Diagnosing these conditions in an outpatient setting ranges from difficult to downright impossible, even if a detailed medical history of the patient is obtained.
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I was misdiagnosed for almost a decade. It made my bipolar worse and worse. I was hospitalized three times.
I was the one that found the right diagnosis, and I found it through the website above. I'd said maybe five sentences about it to my therapist before he was like, "THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. Everything finally makes sense."
Thanks for posting that link! I saved the article.