Re: Bipolar or ADD or both

[Anonymous]

Ah ecokayaker,

I was once upon a time diagnosed as bi-polar ll by a well-meaning psychiatrist. I could understand her ‘call’ since I’d been feeling rather depressed for a long while. I was a stay-at-home mom with 3 little kids (one being LD and ADHD) with a husband that travelled far and wide about 40 weeks of the year AND no family within a 1000 miles of me. Eeek! I felt lonely, depressed and was about to go crazy!!!

After a couple of years of meds for bi-polar the psychiatrist pulled me off meds since she had decided I was ‘not’ bipolar. She still wanted me to come in to see her but I cut that out after about 2 years since we had nothing to talk about and I didn’t use meds of any type. (Why the heck was I seeing her?)

Then I had a great ‘aha!’ moment after reading an article on adult ADHD. That was me and the ‘symptoms’ were the exact things that resulted in my bi-polar diagnosis.

I found a new psychiatrist (BTW, who is NOT ancient like my previous one) and he promptly diagnosed me as ADHD. This time, the meds made a difference in how I felt and functioned. This psychiatrist told me that ADHD and bi-polar ll (as opposed to bi-polar l) are often confused for each other. He did also say that a person can also be both ADHD and bi-polar but it is not common.

Hope this helps!

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