It was 20 years ago this spring that I was diagnosed. And I honestly can't remember what I was feeling, or thinking. Not happy that's for sure, and certainly not relieved. I was stunned and reeling for a long time I think.

The psychiatrist fed me a lot of malarkey about how I would find the right meds within a few months and be good as new and functioning like any normal person from then on .And, not knowing any different,believed him. There were years of disappointments ahead of me, that's for sure.