I had a girlfriend in college who in our beginning stages asked me "so...do you have bipolar or schizoaffective?" Which surprised me because I thought my symptoms were well hidden and also who tf knows what schizoaffective disorder (later found out she had BPD so did a lot of research in similar diagnoses). She explained all the symptoms she saw (weird texts at weird hours, days of hypersexuality followed by not even wanting to think about sex, being really loud and talkative (obnoxiously so, but she didn't say that) for periods, responding to noises she couldn't hear, etc) and that conversation was really helpful because I had just barely been diagnosed at the time.

How did you react when you were first diagnosed?