Hey, downers, welcome. You will find alot of support here, I expect.

So, I am 56 now, childhood-onset bp 1, but not diagnosed officially until I was 41. Decades without a mood stabilizer of any sort. What you are describing all sounds very familiar to me and will to others here as well. Exactly how to categorize it, I am not totally sure at this point. But based on what you have written, it does sound like at the very least some pretty significant hypomania/possibly frank mania, depending on the rest of the story, maybe going on. Also wondering a little about maybe even some mixed features possibly. But, this is all probably confounded a lot by your trauma, which can have a huge mood and stability and fear/paranoia/even psychosis, sometimes, impact. I have badass PTSD and super badass bp 1 and I sometimes cannot tell you which one is the most meaningful and immediate culprit. Sorta hard to tease that all out.

But I really wouldn't even worry about all that. The main thing is to get you feeling better and more stable. To that end, I myself would definitely take that Seroquel, even though I do not personally like that drug much. But I have been on it and it does work for a lot of folks. Being on it until this calms down is not going to give you metabolic syndrome. You can always switch to something with a better safery profile, like Abilify, say, down the road.

Sending you strength and support. Hang in there.

One more thing. Most of us here who have been dealing with this for awhile have a few disasters in our pasts from texting/emailing/screaming/calling/confronting--whatever. From high-energy interactions with others that seemed perfectly sensible at the time, but that later, we realized we were horrified by. So, be super careful about the texting, etc. until things calm down a bit. Ditto shopping. Ditto driving. As I have said before, it took me all of about maybe 45 seconds or so to completely destroy a successful career, family, and pretty much my entire life. It is much better not to have to do that. Be careful.