Bipolar 1. I started out with bipolar NOS, and it took 2 1/2 years before I got the BP 1 label in the hospital. I thought that almost everybody got diagnosed BP 1 in the hospital and I didn't take it seriously, but since then three more mental healthcare providers have diagnosed me with it so I have to pay closer attention to it than I used to. I hate depression with every fiber of my being, but full-blown mania is NOT my friend no matter what it whispers to me in the still of the night, when my brain is like having all 250 TV channels on at the same time.