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#26
Oct 03, 2017, 09:52 AM
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I was diagnosed with MDD when I was in my late teens but it came and went in waves and I was on and off medication. I was diagnosed with bipolar II when I was in my early-mid thirties. At first it was a relief to know what the heck was going on but like Vertigo, I question the diagnosis. I don't have periods of hypomania or mania ever. I can get talkative and hyperproductive but I tend to think it's because I'm happy not to be in such a deep depression.
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Oct 03, 2017, 10:11 AM
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 Eat a live frog for breakfast every morning and nothing worse can happen to you that day! "Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Bipolar type 2 rapid cycling DX 2013 - Seroquel 100 Celexa 20 mg Xanax .5 mg prn Modafanil 100 mg 
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Oct 03, 2017, 10:17 AM
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I was dxed with psychosis first, I took it really seriously and follow my meds religiously and recovered for the most part. Years later after trying to go off meds with medical supervision I became mildly psychotic again----with the recurrence that means I had something more chronic, they ruled out sz and its either bipolar or sza. Bipolar is what they write in my charts but I'm still not convinced that I have enough of the mood element but I think it takes 1 manic episode to be bipolar forever so here I am.
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Oct 03, 2017, 10:48 AM
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Relieved I wasn't wrong... and really sad too. I've seen and am witnessing it wreck and kill other people close to me, so I'd really like to not join that statistic. Getting dx'ed meant getting treatment, and treatment seems to be working; thus the relief now continues.
It was foolish of me to wait till I was sure I needed help to call though, another few days up, and I wouldn't have wanted anything in the world to get in my way or interfere with what I was feeling. It was already an exaltation of living, visible energy in everything around me, and I was provoking it with a good bit of gusto even as I went to that first appointment which would pull the plug.
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Oct 04, 2017, 04:02 AM
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Of course I was diagnosed MDD several times and ADHD throughout my adult years. I wasn't sure that was "just" it, but I loved the antidepressants and stimulants so I didn't say. I knew it was more at 7 but didn't know what it was. At 30, I was diagnosed bipolar. My first thought was "hmm, that's what this is. I'll be _____(insert expletives)." I read more about it and realized that this is indeed the case. I embraced that this was the emotional difference I have and I wear it like a badge. I do not hesitate when others are talking about mental illness and it's time to share or be silent. Both of my last two trips in the hospital have let me see that we're much more common than I thought. I hate having to go in through that door, but it's better than going in through that morgue.
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Oct 04, 2017, 11:17 AM
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Oct 04, 2017, 11:26 AM
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#33
Oct 04, 2017, 11:56 PM
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Got my diagnosis a couple of weeks ago and I just feel a lot of anger. After being called manic so many times in the hospital no matter how many times I told them I wasn't manic, and all of my ups and downs this year since starting antidepressants I'm not surprised just angry. First I was angry at the Dr's for putting that word on my files and my dad for having it and "giving" it to me (yes I understand it's not all genetics) then I realized my life had already been ruined by the depression with ridiculous breaks for me to start too many things I wasn't capable of anyway.
Now the anger just simmers, not sure what it's directed at. Probably better than the denial I was holding onto before being given the diagnosis though. Before this I just thought I was a very depressed person with little breaks of brilliance. hmmm I kind of still believe that I just try to ruin the brilliance with bad and hilarious behavior, might as well have fun if I can't use my brilliance the way I want. |
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Oct 05, 2017, 12:45 AM
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I felt relieved. This Bipolar explains allot of crazy things that I have done in my life.
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