I am starting to question my mental health issues. I think I developed mental health issues due to trauma. i never was given a psych med until I was in my 20's. I never started taking them consistently until I was in my 30's. I struggled with severe anxiety on and off most of my life. I have had brief psychotic episodes due to stress; but nothing that ever fit a diagnosis like schizophrenia or bipolar. I was told I must be on drugs to act like I had. I don't actually have a drug or alcohol problem. Then they said I was bipolar II but that made no sense. It was like the doctor just made up something to diagnose me with.

I did get relabelled with bipolar, but it was often relayed to me as a "muddy" diagnosis, and not actually clear that I had it. This led to a lot of confusion by my family doctors and other doctors who happened upon my records. I did develop sleep issues which were thought to be a symptom of bipolar. It turns out it really was just insomnia, and sleep issues developing possibly due to a thyroid problem. I suffer from grade A insomnia sometimes. Seroquel gave me sleep, but going off Seroquel took away my sleep.

I was told I was not bipolar and given mirtazipine for sleep which sort of helps.

Now that I had been diagnosed with Graves Disease, i am wanting to come off some of the medication, and try to get my body into it's own homeostasis. I wonder how much my thyroid dysfunction as played an actual role in my mental health issues recently.