This is just a passing curiosity I have and I'm wondering if anyone else had this:

A few years ago I had what I now see was a couple month long hypomanic episode. After I had crashed and talked my way out of hospitalization, my pdoc prescribed me Lamictal without saying exactly what it was for. The word "bipolar" was thrown around a bit, but I wasn't diagnosed until a year later.

Is this something that normally happens?