Bipolar

[Bookishbunny]

My doctor brought this up and yesterday I started to believe it. She thinks I could be bipolar or severely depressed with adhd. But right no I have some much going on she said it be better for the dust to settle before a diagnosis is made. My OCD has latched on to this and I’m having extreme health anxiety. Is it possible that people with bipolar depression or adhd could tell me what it’s like so I can learn more? Thanks.

[Starrlight]

Hi Bookishbunny! I was diagnosed about four or five times with bipolar disorder. There are two types 1 and bipolar 2. You can look up the differences between the two. For me I get impulsive and ocd comes along with it for me...and then there’s the mood swings.

The hardest is the anxiety for me.

A bunch of times I’ve slipped into deep depression and also a bunch of times had mania where you don’t sleep snd feel on top of the world just amazing yet it also gets you making poor decisions. My last psychotic episode was in 2015.

I was on lithium but because of my liver had to go off but lithium is good because it balances out moods and has nueroprotective properties for the brain.

What types of symptoms are you experiencing if you care to share?

[Bookishbunny in reply to Starrlight]

Episodes where I am hyperactive. Like I’ll text my mom twenty times in a row about nothing and I can’t stop myself. Or I’ll like get out of bed at night and start cleaning my room. Mood swings, super happy then sobbing. I cannot concentrate and I get hyper focused on some things. Like I will spend two hundred bucks on a random hobby do nothing but that for days then never do it again. And I have terrible impulse control.

[Bookishbunny in reply to Bookishbunny]

I know you aren’t a doctor but it’s nice it get information on this as it has been taking over my life.

[Starrlight in reply to Bookishbunny]

Yeah those things sound familiar to me with the bipolar. And then the ocd. My main thing now is anxiety especially socially... I keep wondering what I’d be like off the meds. Probably not so good. But am I good now - no. Oh well.

I say if you want to do meds with a doc try one at a time so you know which is doing what.

[Roxylox]

I have bipolar and had a temporary bout of OCD some years ago. Bipolar can be very manageable, try not to let it worry you too much

[Bookishbunny in reply to Roxylox]

Thanks

[Starrlight]

Yeah I agree with Roxylox, don’t worry you’ll get it sorted.

[Bookishbunny in reply to Starrlight]

It’s more complicated. I have one parent in denial anything is wrong totally against me getting help. So I have to hide everything concerning this. Plus both my old therapist and doctor have neither acknowledged these issues. They have only mentioned them in passing. Things are just getting to a point that I can’t function. I don’t know how to sort this out. I can’t even find a new therapist.