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Originally Posted by bluebicycle
Obviously not a doctor here, but if you have been to IP multiple times in this mental state you describe and the doctors did not diagnose you with bipolar during any of those IP stays, then either (A) you don't have bipolar, or (B) you may have intentionally or unintentionally withheld information from doctors that they would need in order to diagnose you with bipolar. But if you have had multiple "evaluations" in an IP setting and doctors STILL don't want to diagnose you with bipolar, I would personally think no to the Dx. I mean, I could be wrong, but if you have felt this way multiple times and each time they've said no to bipolar despite observing you in a controlled setting for days at a time, they must have their reasons? But if you are hiding things from them, then it's certainly possible you have bipolar and it's going unnoticed. So it depends on how open you've been with mental health professionals.
Also, there is such a thing as MDD w/ anxious features and MDD w/ psychotic features. And PTSD, as you say, can definitely mimic bipolar in a lot of ways.
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Those IP stays were really unhelpful, I even left one of them without the pdoc consent. They didnt diagnosed me with anything beyond a copy-paste from past issues (psychotic disorder nos, anxiety nos, mood disorder nos, schyzotypal,...). Of course I didnt tell then anything since they were treating me so poorly!
After these IP incidents my now former pdoc decided to try depakine. He was the one that two years ago wrote that I didnt have a depressive episode even if I showed depressive symptoms, but just a year ago he said I was having a depressive episode (???). I was sincere when he told me I was having a depressive episode (and we tried a low dose of a tricyclic antidepressant... SSRI cause me mania, which in the past ment I was given a huge dose of seroquel that made me gain like 80lbs). Yeah, I know I tend to hide a lot of things, for me it is not easily to open Up after so many bad experiences.
My therapist seems to agree to the PTSD but he seems to think there is something else going on. I am afraid of telling these things I have told you in my first post.
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