I saw your post in the check-in thread and I don't have the greatest memory, but I do know for sure you've had some depressive episodes even recently, and a quick search through your posts choosing a random page years ago shows you did seem elevated (in my non professional but lots of experience opinion) in at least 2020 for a period of time.

I'd say your therapist is focused on the recent psychosis, but since she hasn't seen you blatantly (hypo)manic she's just questioning if your previous docs saw things accurately.

When I question my diagnosis, not out of lack of insight into being currently symptomatic and being delusional when I'm not capable of halfway decent judgment, I look up the criteria for manic and hypomanic symptoms or see other people going through it (on here mostly) and say "yeah, been there."


It's tough because it is episodic and it's easy to "forget" or ascribe "that time" to something else until it happens again, at least for me. But I'd say a huge "yeah, you're bipolar" is if you've ever had days of minimal to no sleep and didn't feel tired without being on substances that cause wakefulness (if I sleep less than 5 hours a night two nights in a row and feel energetic, my doc is comfortable saying I'm getting hypomanic so it doesn't have to be as severe as "I was up for five days straight running marathon distances every day while chatting everybody's ears up until they bled").