Just interested in your thoughts. My pdoc diagnosed me type 2 bipolar last year. He said I wasn’t type 1 because my mania didn’t last 2 weeks and was not that severe. I was able to keep working and hide my symptoms (barely). The fact that I felt as if electricity was going to spark out my fingertips didn’t concern him for type 1 because I knew it was not actually going to happen. Visual and auditory hallucinations I had as a teenager (I’m nearly 50 and have had only glimpses in the last year, otherwise haven’t had any) were not significant because I knew they were not real. Then a couple months later he put me in Latuda and said he was using it even though I’m type 2 because it’s good for bipolar depression and that’s my major symptom.

My T says type 1 because even though I was only really manic for about 4 days, my overall mood was quite up/irritable with a lot of sleep disturbance for well over 2 weeks and that even though I haven’t lost my job, been arrested etc, that the impact of bipolar on my life has been quite significant which is true.

I figure she’s right and my pdoc didn’t say it because the label doesn’t really matter and he probably didn’t want me to freak out and refuse the medication.

Thoughts?