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Dec 14, 2020, 10:46 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Originally Posted by Moose72
I saw a psychiatrist at 16, too. I just knew something wasn't right. That I was different. But that pdoc just said I was a "normal teenager". I went from 16 to 33 before I was diagnosed. Dealing with manias and depressions all on my own. Fighting with people because they thought I was crazy and that yelling back at me would help. I grew up in an alcoholic family, too. Still dealing with that at times. So yeah- they didn't know I was bipolar. I didn't know. And I suffered what with that plus my dad being an alcoholic and my mom being borderline. (My guess, anyway.) I spent years dating men I barely knew and having sex with them, too. Sometimes without condoms. I'd get disassociated and wander. Once I got up in the middle of the night and went to starbucks that was open all night and then I got up and drove into town and wandered under this odd fog of mania for hours. Nobody knew. My primary dr finallyl saw something about me and sent me to psych. It took a bit, but I was fianally diagnosed Bipolar NOS which turned into bipolar 1.
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I enjoyed reading your post, Moose. That's the most you've mentioned your personal history since I've been around here.
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