The nurse practitioner I’m seeing about my ADHD diagnosed me with bipolar disorder
She literally could not have surprised me more if she tried
This makes no sense to me but it’s scaring me a lot :(
I don’t really remember having manic episodes? Depressive maybe but it’s usually after something bad happens to me and not really consistently…
I told her I put off making this appointment cuz I’ve been feeling really bad recently, then she just asked me a few questions like if people say I talk too much sometimes or if I do things impulsively and prescribed me an antipsychotic (aripiprazole) wtf
I asked some family and they haven’t noticed anything like this… idk :(. Has this happened to anyone else? Am I just in denial? I’m afraid to take this drug she gave cuz I really don’t need to be even more tired all the time… or tardive dyskinesia or something (unlikely, worst case)
CW : Story of suicidal thoughts and kind of self harm too.
spoiler
I too got diagnosed in the last few years with Bipolar with hypomania after I also did a test for ADD which was positive. I’ve struggled with suicidal thoughts since my teenage years but I knew that if I just waited it out, it would pass and I’d gain that sweet new will to live and a boost to my self esteem with it.
But yeah I had typical depressed stuff, isolating, dropping everything and projects I had started and missing while days too. I’ve started with Aripriprazole too but I was getting some morbid thoughts racing in my head too and that kind of stopped using antipsychotics.
But as other have noted, get a second opinion if you can, you know yourself better than anyone after all.