In last week's Question of the Week, 18 of you shared your story of being misdiagnosed - often by a doctor who failed to listen or ask the right questions - and the long difficult journey - typically taking years - in arriving at the correct diagnosis.
This time around, I'm asking you to cast your mind further back, years and perhaps... Read more
Two days ago, as a Question of the Week, I asked:Were you misdiagnosed with depression or something else? How long did it take before you finally received the correct diagnosis?The eight responses I received so far are extremely illuminating, and serve as excellent case studies for what our population has to go through. Let’s go down the... Read more
More than ten years ago, in the throes of a suicidal depression, I sought out a psychiatrist, who diagnosed me with clinical depression. The antidepressant he prescribed flipped me into mania, which made a bipolar diagnosis a no-brainer. I consider myself one of the lucky ones. Many continue to lead miserable lives for years with their... Read more
This week is Mental Illness Awareness Week. Okay, let’s get aware. Following is a random traverse through history:
790,000 BC, give or take a few years - Discovery of fire. Anyone crazy enough to take a burning tree into their cave and find a practical application had to have been dealing with bipolar. So, you nonbipolars out there,... Read more
Ticadoo writes:"[My best friend] and my husband have told me I need to be checked for bipolar, but everything I've read, up until finding your site, showed I did not have all the symptoms, which is the mania - having ups. I never have those."Thank you for writing, Ticadoo. You have raised what I would characterize as bipolar's biggest myth -... Read more
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