I was talking to the councillor and she said there’s defibately mood changes going on but it’s not consistent and very rapid. She said it seems to be triggered by the environment and she’s not sure if it’s bipolar ? Wtf why am I on meds
Maybe she’s an idiot who isn’t trained in psychiatry ?
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No offense but most counselors are not qualified to properly diagnose.
If I were you I would get a second opinion from a qualified psychiatrist that specializes in treating mood disorders.
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That’s what I meant to say 
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I’m not there for a diagnosis. I’m there to get counceling. I thought she was great but now I am having doubts that I have a mental illness and all these moods are stemming from the environment , my home where I don’t feel I can be me. Errr
I will need to continue going. I think it will help as if I do intend to apply pip them I have a case
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But if you are doubting whether you should be on medications, maybe you should speak to a psychiatrist for a consultation.
Taking meds is serious stuff.
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Hey on the upside if your bipolar you’ll get really high and feel great until somehow you get put in the hospital. Atleast that’s my story
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That’s not how I’ve experienced my moods. I get anxious and want to cry and think it much it’s really not comfortable. I think it’s mixed
Ah I had mixed states too, instead of high it’s really angry and easily annoyed, not feeling good. Still ended up in the ward. Mixed states is worse
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My friend/ distant relative once told me that I making such a huge deal of this illness. Everybody has something, she said: At least you know what you have, so you can find a treatment.
To me it was more like dying and coming back to life, took me years to just recover a little bit.
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I used to get mixed states where I would get real angry and irritable and go into rages and be real depressed and suicidal too. I was that way for years and years. Nowadays though, for many years now, ever since about 2004, I’ve been very happy with a stable, euthymic mood. I only got briefly depressed and suicidal when my son died, but, that did not last very long. Only about a month. I was in the hospital for that. But, I got over it and I’ve been perfectly fine ever since. I know exactly what to attribute it to too. Two things. The one, I’m not allowed to talk about on this site, and the other was that my dad apologized to me for all of his incest against me. And that is all I ever wanted from him.
Do you hallucinate otherwise or have mood swings? Seems to me a good reason to have meds.