My Dx was pretty fast.

I was diagnosed with depression in 2013 at my university's counseling place. I didn't believe them, so I pretty much ran away. I also didnt tell them the 100% truth.

I came crawling back 2 years later (except this time to a private practice) and told them all of my symptoms, which indicated bipolar. They looked at my previous record and said "how come your old psychological evaluation doesn't say bipolar?" So they treated me for depression by giving me an antidepressant without a mood stabilizer or antipsychotic. Made me manic af.

I've done 3 evaluations since then (for various reasons) and they've all pointed to some form of bipolar. Now my official Dx is Bipolar 1 with mood-incongruent psychotic features.