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Interesting article from the New Yorker...
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 37809" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I did get worse in puberty, but since I didn't have classic Bipolar I, it was still missed and diagnosed as just depression. Even telling the psychiatrist that I snapped into highs that I could feel didn't help. He thought because the "highs" weren't psychotic highs that they weren't mania. I did tend to get more depressed than hypo-manic. It's very hard to get a correct BiPolar (BP) diagnosis unless you are the classic type. Often you are told you have ODD or borderline personality disorder or unipolar depression or anxiety disorder or that you're just "difficult." I don't know if it's changed any, but somewhere I read that the average time a person goes for help and gets a bipolar diagnosis is TEN YEARS. It was certainly that long for me. I started getting considerably worse at thirteen with the moods, and got diagnosed at twenty-three. The Bipolar II diagnosis has stuck. Every professional I've gone to so far agrees with it, although I also have serious neurological symptoms too--most recent diagnosis. on that front is a NonVerbal Learning Disorder (NVLD), but that wouldn't explain my mercurial moodswings without medication. So there is really no way to know for sure, even as a teen, unless that teen is Patty Duke Astin high/low. Otherwise, it can be blurry and you can still be misdiagnosed and put on medications that make you worse instead of better. You have to make sure you go to a top notch doctor, and hope for the best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 37809, member: 1550"] I did get worse in puberty, but since I didn't have classic Bipolar I, it was still missed and diagnosed as just depression. Even telling the psychiatrist that I snapped into highs that I could feel didn't help. He thought because the "highs" weren't psychotic highs that they weren't mania. I did tend to get more depressed than hypo-manic. It's very hard to get a correct BiPolar (BP) diagnosis unless you are the classic type. Often you are told you have ODD or borderline personality disorder or unipolar depression or anxiety disorder or that you're just "difficult." I don't know if it's changed any, but somewhere I read that the average time a person goes for help and gets a bipolar diagnosis is TEN YEARS. It was certainly that long for me. I started getting considerably worse at thirteen with the moods, and got diagnosed at twenty-three. The Bipolar II diagnosis has stuck. Every professional I've gone to so far agrees with it, although I also have serious neurological symptoms too--most recent diagnosis. on that front is a NonVerbal Learning Disorder (NVLD), but that wouldn't explain my mercurial moodswings without medication. So there is really no way to know for sure, even as a teen, unless that teen is Patty Duke Astin high/low. Otherwise, it can be blurry and you can still be misdiagnosed and put on medications that make you worse instead of better. You have to make sure you go to a top notch doctor, and hope for the best. [/QUOTE]
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