My issue as I took the quiz was how much of it has likely been changed by meds. What did you do what that on the quiz?
I started on psych meds at 17. Then I spent four years ultra depressed and having side effects relevant tot he quiz questions, but I seemed to have my creativity and intuition about people. Then I got on atypical antipsychotics and lost my intuition about people and the world. Then I got on mood stabilizers and lost my creativity. It probably would be "easy to get in touch with [my] creative side" without meds, but I don't know for sure and it's not easy right now.
"I strive for objectivity" is highly influenced, I think, by my bipolar because being objective is one of the coping skills I've developed for managing the lies that my bipolar emotions often tell me, but would I be this objective without bipolar? Probably not since I'm INFP but I can't know.
What did you guys do about that? About how mental illness and psych meds have modified who you are? What did you put on the quiz? Who you are now? Who you think you might have been?
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Dx: Bipolar II, ultra rapid cycling but meds help with the severity of cycling.
Rx: lamictal, seroquel, lithium
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