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#1
Dec 21, 2016, 01:42 PM
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Did you sign up to this site before or after you'd been (correctly) diagnosed?
I signed up after because I didn't dare sign up before being on (enough) antipsychotics.
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#2
Dec 21, 2016, 01:49 PM
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I was on a different support group online.
They changed the format and most quit. Then I found PC. But I've been diagnosed BP for decades.
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#3
Dec 21, 2016, 01:59 PM
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After. I've been DX'ed for 13 years now.
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#4
Dec 21, 2016, 02:00 PM
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I signed up Dx bipolar through the years my dx has changed but always comes back to BP. I think I'm SZA but don't really care anymore as I'm on very little meds now.
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#5
Dec 21, 2016, 02:01 PM
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I signed up here b/c I wasn't sure about the BP Dx that my pdoc gave me. I had made a thread asking about it.
When I started having psychosis, I started to believe the Dx. So yes, I signed up after my Dx |
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#6
Dec 21, 2016, 02:14 PM
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Years after. I've been in treatment for thirty plus years, didn't find PC until much more recently.
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#7
Dec 21, 2016, 03:12 PM
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I signed up after as well
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#8
Dec 21, 2016, 03:16 PM
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After by a few years.
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#9
Dec 21, 2016, 03:50 PM
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4 years after
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#10
Dec 21, 2016, 04:05 PM
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Before. I was misdiagnosed with MDD when I signed up here.
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#11
Dec 21, 2016, 04:08 PM
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I signed up 2 years after dx
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#12
Dec 21, 2016, 05:10 PM
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I registered a couple months ago when my mixed episode started. I was going on 9 months unmedicated. Soon after I was involuntarily hospitalized.
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#13
Dec 21, 2016, 05:12 PM
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I signed up before, I still am not safely diagnosed but they say it is probable and seems to be a mix of bad childhood, bipolar and maybe borderline. Anyway I am here because I get explanations for things I have always wondering about and a lot of beautiful support here. I can really relate to many topics what makes me think my p and t might be right about the idea that there is something bipolar about me.
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#14
Dec 22, 2016, 03:46 AM
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I signed up years after I was diagnosed. I went through the motions myself and really had no outlet. Thank god I found this site almost 5 years ago, it has been so helpful to me.
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Dec 22, 2016, 05:52 AM
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years after.
I signed up in 2012, someone suggested the site to me- and I remember going on it and thinking at the time... wow, how big is this site! I actually didn't think i'd use it much (i'd be 1 of those people signing up and forgetting about it), but hey... here I am in 2016, still using it- even suggesting it to some people I know. |
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#16
Dec 22, 2016, 07:01 AM
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Years after and at first I avoided the BP Forum, I guess even though BP was my Dx I didn't want to believe it.
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#17
Dec 22, 2016, 10:09 AM
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I don't remember for certain, but I believe it was right around the time of my diagnosis, maybe shortly thereafter.
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#18
Dec 22, 2016, 12:43 PM
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3 years after I was diagnosed.
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Dec 22, 2016, 05:42 PM
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I'd been lurking around the site for a while, but didn't join till the day after I was diagnosed.
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#20
Dec 22, 2016, 06:45 PM
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After. I signed up because I was looking for answers.
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#21
Dec 22, 2016, 09:18 PM
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About eight years after I was diagnosed. It was after I had my first ever psychotic break in January of 2015. I was freaking out about it and looking for answers, like can you have one mania (or whatever it was) induced psychotic situation and still be bipolar.
I never really believed I had bipolar until this past summer though. My pdoc at that time actually made me see that I had it.
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#22
Dec 22, 2016, 09:35 PM
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I signed up as soon as I received my official diagnosis as I needed the support. My doctor had been toying with the BP diagnosis for months before until I got clearly hypomanic bordering on manic then depressed. My symptoms had been blurred before that by severe PTSD and very unstable living circumstances and a bad marriage.
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