Yes. They should have diagnosed me with bipolar then because I hadn’t slept in 3 days. But I also had severe anorexia, and when you have an eating disorder that bad, it seems to trump all other diagnoses, so they just wrote down depression.

Years later, I was again hospitalized for panic disorder after being an unintentional victim of a shooting. They just went with the previous diagnosis of depression, didn’t even attemp to rediagnose me. By that point my eating disorder was under control, and it seems like they should have taken my extreme lack of sleep and my problem of overspending which I mentioned to the pdoc. into account.

I only got diagnosed as bipolar after roughly 10 years in the mental health system when I showed up to a pdoc appointment with full-blown mania. My diagnosis was then changed immediately, and I very narrowly escaped hospitalization.