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Old May 25, 2017, 06:03 PM
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I was diagnosed later in life - I'm 58 now and was diagnosed after a huge manic episode about 6 years ago. I had been taking antidepressants on and off for about 7 or 8 years I think and every time I stopped them I would get manic. The last time was very serious - I left the country and flew all over the world. I blew 50 thousand dollars in less than a month and don't even remember quite a bit of it. I vaguely remember one period when I was awake for about 4 days - I had a villa in Bali and was washing all of my clothes in my pool in the middle of the night. Lots of other very strange stuff too which I thought was reasonable at the time.

I've been trying to work out what happened to me - I suspect that before I had periods of elevated mood but I wasn't aware of it or the benzos I took for many years somehow masked the symptoms. I think maybe the SSRI's really brought it to a head as well - it's become much worse anyway.

My psych never said I was bipolar 1 or 2 but I have all the symptoms of bipolar 1 - my mania is very severe. My therapist said it was like a text-book example of a manic episode - it scared the hell out of me.
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