I fought years to get a diagnosis that I thought fit. It was important to me to get the right diagnosis for right treatment. So I’m on a mood stabiliser now and an antipsychotic (but no psychosis in 6. 5 years. I’m doubting the last diagnosis I thought was correct. To be honest I don’t know what I have. Most people think I’m too well to have either.
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i’ve been stable about the same amount of time ish 
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I believe you’re in the majority, for most mental health diagnoses, I believe, are simply an educated guess. Also, we have to take into account that the body (including the brain) changes over time.
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Based upon your behavior displayed on the forums, I think I’d guess that you’re Bipolar type 2, which is the mild type.
That means they’re working. The point of these medications is the prevent psychosis or a manic episode.
It has been 8 years since I had my manic episode. Although I haven’t experienced psychosis any time recently, I recognize that my range of emotions is far more broad than a “normal” adult’s. I used to question my diagnosis too, but have accepted it.
If you’re looking for a magical pill to solve all your problem’s, it doesn’t exist and never will. Only you can find purpose and meaning in your life.
Bipolar type 2 is not mild. But it involves more deeper depressions and few hypomanias. I hardly get depressed. Bipolar type 2 doesn’t include psychosis. Only bipolar type 1 has psychosis.
A psychotic episode can occur in people with bipolar type 2 due to antidepressants or stimulants, such as in my case.
Yes but I wasn’t on any Meds when i had my first psychosis. I don’t frequently get depression either.
This is all so confusing for me. Now that I have a different diagnosis (psychosis nos) I wonder if my hypomanic periods were actually psychotic. 
But whatever I am I’m bloddy sure I’m depressive type of ‘it’. My ups were never that strong as my downs.
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Perhaps you’re bipolar type 1 or schizoaffective then. These labels really aren’t all that important tbh. The fact is that you’re experiencing mood instability and psychosis sometimes. Take whatever medications help you with these symptoms and help you live a good life.
To be frank, I don’t you have been the same ever since your father passed. I believed you would greatly benefit from talking to a therapist about the unresolved pain you have with this traumatic experience and to deal with your issues of shame related to sex. A 31 year old shouldn’t feel so much shame related to sex as you do.
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All I know is if you get psychosis and get mania (not linked to organic or drugs or Meds) then it’s bipolar 1 … don’t think it matters if you got psychosis when you were depressed. Psychosis only happens without other causes if you type 1. It’s my understanding.
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Your meds are probably working, I go up and down and all over the place, stress me out to much and I get in pretty bad shape.I don’t think the label is that important, it’s managing it that counts both with meds and life experience.
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Maybe it comes across like this on the forums. But obviously The death of my dad has been hard. But that’s natural for most. Bipolar or not. I work and am managing life as best as I can. I am much better than I was five years ago.
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I think psychosis is involved in the whirlwind voices and mixed states, for me personally. They go far beyond simple mood disturbances.
I don’t know about hypomania. I don’t think I’ve ever had it. If I did, there wasn’t any psychosis attached.
Struggle with that often. Not really a patient not really stable. Probably more now then ever feeling torn between where I do really fit as I really start to let people into my life.
Sorry on your dad. Hope you can come to peace with it soon. Something to bring up if your still in therapy as I did find Grief counseling beneficial with the loss of my dad two friends suicide and my aunts death in a few year period.
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