Not just "any doctor." A psychiatrist. I had a nice post here that accidentally got zapped. What it said was that my bro was dx'd by a regular doctor decades ago, with major depression, from a 20 question form!!! He finally is seeing a psychiatrist (pdoc) and the new pdoc says maybe he has never had major depression at all -- maybe it's anxiety disorder. That was my dad's problem,and dx anyway.

I, too, was misdiagnosed -- by an incompetent pdoc! Yes a psychiatrist only saw me in a depressive state for one, one hour interview.She dx'd me with depression. My great pdoc 20 years ago spend TWO HOUR INTERVIEW then dx'd me with bipolar disorder.

Please find a pdoc who is very familiar with bipolar disorder, and has a lot of bipolar patients. A lot of docs actually LOVE bipolars and love having us as their clients/patients.