I read a book when I was seriously depressed at the beginning called, "Depression and How to Survive It." Such originality, I know. It was an autobiography of the life and times and mental illness of British comedian Spike Milligan. I remember thinking about how amazingly his story fit into mine. Well, joke was on me as Spike Milligan was bipolar in a big way and his calling his autobiography "Depression and How to Survive It" was... I don't know.

I guess what I'm saying with that anecdote is that I was more geared to accept bipolar as a diagnosis from the beginning because depression wasn't accounting for everything symptom wise. The challenge was convincing others to look at it and take it seriously. It was more of an uphill climb than one would expect.