1st manic event: 1997, triggered by diet pills (phen-fen)

2nd manic event: 2015, triggered by insomnia from propanolol

No mood stabilizers from 1997 to 2015.

No lie...but anxiety and depression my whole life. Hypomania has been around a long time. I don’t know when it started because I never heard of it until recently.

Finally started on lithium in 2016. Abilify doesn’t do squat for me (2015-2016 hypomania and depression/anxiety still occurring on ability).

Was I in “remission” from bipolar? I don’t think so.

If I had never been prescribed the drugs, I might not even be dx’d.

If dsm hadn’t changed criteria, drug-induced mania wouldn’t even count toward a bipolar dx.