Yes basically I am.

I see in a lot of Bipolar people "especially newly diagnosed " "Most" have no idea what there baseline is. That was me, clueless.

For me.. I wasn't diagnosed until age 43.. Wow it was obvious that I had it all my life. I thought everyone had racing thoughts, Chronic insomnia, Over spending, some poor decisions... etc. So I have no idea what the hell baseline was

So I was slung onto the Med Merry Go Round.. It was ridiculous.. I was more up and down and swinging from light poles than before being diagnosed.

The reaction I might have to situation X might be totally different than someone elses. Hense why Bipolar is a very unique animal to different people...

Does that make sense ? My mind is misfiring alot lately

Ps just to add .. because I am old and didn't have the internet at my fingertips. I would have had to go to the library and haul a bunch of heavy encyclopedias and skim around and since it wasn't going to just hand me an answer or any clue.. I just went about my life.

The couple times in my life I was treated for depression and it was intolerable. As my particular Bipolar soup doesn't play nice with AD's