Just ask your doc what his current diagnosis is. It’s no big deal, and shouldn’t be a scary question.

I’m not a fan of the present trend in psychiatry that allows an AD-induced mania to get someone a BP label....but it is what it is. I feel there’s a trend to label everyone BP because it’s easily accepted by insurance companies for both treatment and paying for expensive brand medications. Has anyone seen any new brand-name antidepressants launched in recent years? I can’t think of any, but I can think of a whole host of antipsychotics, even when they’re things like Latuda that have bipolar depression as their only FDA indication. And that comes with a price tag of over $1k/mo.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any means, but I do think it’s odd that everyone in the ‘90s got a diagnosis of MDD, and it seems everyone today gets a diagnosis of BP.