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Originally Posted by Misterpain
For those that question there bipolar diagnosis there is a "test" that can pretty sccurately in about 90% of patients that doctors found by accident , put a bipolar on an SSRI without a mood stabilizer or AP and the will generally go manic within about a year , some much faster than that , that's why they cocktail people to stabilise them , now if you don't mind a small hospital stay with lousy food that is the unscientific litmus test of bipolar , but i really dont recommend you put yourself and your relationships through it .
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I passed (failed?) that test rather quickly. I was on Prozac for maybe two weeks for my first major depressive episode in university and went hypomanic. Unfortunately, I really enjoyed it so I didn't make a big deal about it and subsequently went undiagnosed until I was 41. That's when the dysphoric hypomanias kicked in and I went from being a patient, even-keeled guy to a snapping, angry jerk. The contrast was so stark to my personality that I finally clued in that maybe I was having mood swings.