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First time seeking help was when my husband cheated on me. I was at my wits end, couldn’t focus, was deeply in mourning (for our relationship) and didn’t know where else to turn. Went to a family doctor, was given Buspar. Which was brand new at the time. It worked for a few weeks, then nothing, went back and was given prozac. On to my life on antidepressants.

SO – I’ve been through 2 or 3 doctors since I had my first child (at 18) and all of them diagnosed me with severe depression. So I’ve been treated, and treated and treated, when in the end, each time ends up with a ‘manic’ or ‘hypomanic’ episode (this is another thing that JUST occurred to me). Of course, after reading, when your ‘manic’ you don’t feel like anything is wrong. In fact, everything is awesome. So until you have another meltdown (depression) then your fine.

So in essence I have been likely riding the Bipolar roller coaster of doom since I was 14 years old. Do I have a confirmed diagnosis of this yet? No
But I have been to the doctor (a new doctor – my old one is getting senile). The doctor said, well, it sounds like bipolar to me, but I need to talk to our NP because she’s seems to have a niche for Psych. I told him, great, please do and soon, I don’t know how much more I can do this. On came the “are you suicidal?” questions and so on. That was THIS Wednesday. Still no word from the doctor. He did however switch my antidepressant (yet again) and I’m still waiting on word of what the NP said. I’m giving it another hour and then I’m calling the office.

I have so many times thought of others as being bipolar, but NEVER once did I look at myself and my insane actions!

On top of the glaring fact that my dad is bipolar (untreated) and my paternal grandmother was bipolar (untreated) both diagnosed though. What other idea could I possibly get? What took me so long to figure this out?

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