No BP dx

I've been reading and posting a bit in this forum but I don't actually have a BP diagnosis. The reason I'm sniffing around here is bc i relate to your guys's experiences more than anywhere else. I'm wondering if I should bring it up to my pdoc or just let it go. My diagnoses are depression and GAD and I just got out of a depressive episode and now experiencing extreme anxiety. I am having acute anxiety and panic attacks several times a week and have been having to sneak away at work to calm myself down. My therapist mentioned in a session last week that some things I was describing sounded like mania or hypomania and that she wanted to talk to my pdoc about it to get her take. Today in session she didn't mention it but I was super agitated and yelling about needing some thing to help me get through the week that we were pretty occupied with those issues. Idt she has talked to my pdoc yet anyway. Idt I'm manic or hypomanic now but I've been getting some feelings that I got during the times she thought I was manic or hm in the past. Idk if this is worth bringing up to my pdoc. It could just waste time and bring up issues that don't exist.

Thoughts?

Get out of here. Go to your forum. Kidding!!.
As Rx will say, "whatever floats your boat".

Hello Ellie_jo: Yes... bring it up to your pdoc. What can it hurt? The Skeezyks' personal experience has been that bringing things of this nature up to his pdoc or therapist (back when he had one) has not resulted in anything of any consequence. But it certainly didn't do any harm either. Good luck!

I was misdiagnosed with depression and gad for a long time, even though I had hypomania episodes since childhood. Depression or anxiety would bring me to a therapist or doctor, but they didn't ask about hypomania, and I didn't offer it up. So, wrong treatments for a long time. My current t apologized for missing the signs, not the doctors. Don't wait for your t to speak for you. If you are having other symptoms, tell your pdoc. Hope you get relief and healing.

I would talk to your pdoc. It can't hurt!

I was diagnosed as BP because I was vocal about my problems. I told my pdoc everything I was feeling, and how I felt in the past.

What do antidepressants do to you?

Antidepressants make me fly into a fiery burning rage. Celexa made me suicidal and I ended up in the hospital

I'd bring it up. I was treated for depression over the course of ten years. I read a few books on the diagnosis of mental illness and recognized I'd been in a state of hypomania each time I came out of a depressive episode. I mentioned to my pdoc at the time that I thought I might be bipolar. She insisted I wasn't because I wasn't up for days, speed talking, have racing thoughts or grandiose thinking. Ten years later I had a full blown mania--it was kinda fun but also very frightening when God started talking to me and I heard my name mentioned on the radio and TV. It can take a long time to get the DX of BP and on your chart.