The thing is, I don't believe I have Bipolar Disorder at all. Especially type 1. I've never experienced a true manic episode in my life. My pdoc told me the reason why he diagnosed me with it is because I was spending money recklessly and engaging in excessive sexual behaviors. When I speak I speak very slowly and take a long time to gather my thoughts. Even though I speak very slowly my mind is constantly racing and I cannot handle trying to talk to someone where there is a crowd of people because I get easily distracted and lose my train of thought. The only other thing is that I get easily irritable and question other people's motives against me. I have huge paranoia that people are stalking me. I'm not trying to infer that I have Schizophrenia, but I've had so many different diagnoses and that Bipolar DX is stuck with me. My last hospitalization lasted for 12 days and in those 12 days I saw a different pdoc than the one I see regularly and she explained very thoroughly that she doesn't believe I am Bipolar due to a lack of mania and she told me I have anxiety, depression, and OCD. She agreed with my previous diagnosis of avoidant personality disorder, major depression, and social anxiety disorder. But on my discharge day I got a packet with information about Bipolar and I was thinking why did I get this since its been decided by the pdoc I saw at the hospital that I don't have Bipolar and the lady told me it's because once you get a DX like that it's stuck with you. The pdoc at the hospital also told me I don't have psychosis either and my hallucinations are sleep related. I tend to oversleep rather than stay up all night. Well I had a therapist appointment today and I brought this to her attention and asked if she could tell this to my pdoc since I won't be seeing him until April and my memory is pretty much shot so I'd likely forget to tell him by my appointment so I hope it will shed some clarity on the issue for me. I may be a hypochondriac. Worrying unnecessarily. And my therapist told me Schizophrenia is usually diagnosed in your early twenties, but I am in my late twenties and I am female if that makes a difference. I am just so confused between being told one thing and then another by a different doc.