Oh another thing about all the tests I took back in the day, my doctor explained they were being used to rule out certain diagnosis. Back then they didn’t diagnose so quick. I was given a long list of things my pdoc wanted to rule out. I suspect that she already had a tentative diagnosis but before putting it on my records she wanted to be on firm ground. At first they tentatively said major depression but I hung on to that one. For years after they said bipolar I was insisting on major depression partly cause they were still calling it manic depression and to my ear that sounded awful. In my early years in the system my hospital papers had tons of abbreviations and numbers that they don’t use now, maybe cause hospitalization is so brief now?