I feel I was correctly diagnosed because it only takes one manic episode to be considered bipolar, you don’t need the depression. Plus genetically I have a lot of bipolar and sz markers, some rare. According to the pdoc it’s the meds keeping my moods in check because APs can be a mood stabilizer. They thought I might have a transient psychosis due to work place pressure originally which is why they allowed me to taper meds down to zero. I tried twice, the first time I went from ten to 7.5 to 5mg....at five mg I was just the most irritable I’ve ever been in my life...I suspect I was still manic. So we went back up to 7.5 my last working dose and stuck with it for a year. My first pdoc was all about getting me off the meds. So two years out we tried again, it took at least a year to taper for me...we were going to do it right this time. I was off meds for nine months then I started getting psychosis again. There was no indication of mania, I just started hearing knocking all the time, the occasional music or hello out of no where. So whatever it is is recurring psychosis. I went back on 7.5mg to stop it before it fully started. This is why I normally post in the psychosis forum. I feel it’s the main problem not the moods but technically I’m bipolar so occasionally I post here. I personally feel I’m long cycling. There is another guy kinda like this called Mark Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut’s son. He’s a doctor now but had like six month of psychosis, recovered for like twenty years without meds then relapsed....this was in two books, one was eden express. Anyway he was originally diagnosed sz then later bipolar.