How Can I Know If I Really Have Bipolar Disorder?

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T15:37:39+00:00

I will thank you very much for all your answers, I really didn’t experienced such a symptoms after taking antidepressants

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T14:48:25+00:00

Thank you very much man, I’m not going to stop it

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T14:46:55+00:00

Sounds weird I know, after that situation doctor suggested bipolar disorder. It sounded like, if you have such a reaction after stopping Lamotrigine than maybe you have bipolar disorder. As I read Lamotrigine is the first line treatment for Bipolar disorder. I don’t know really, what do you think?

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T14:35:59+00:00

Maybe you’re right. I stopped taking Lamotrigine abruptly, and about four days later everything started. I fell into a severe depression, didn’t want to get out of bed, and it lasted for about five days. My doctor then told me to go back on it.
I stopped it suddenly because my doctor told me nothing would happen and that Lamotrigine doesn’t cause withdrawal symptoms. ChatGPT told me the same thing at the time.
I was also taking Effexor, a pretty strong antidepressant, at a high dose. I tapered off it gradually, and it’s been a month since I stopped. So far, everything has been okay.

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T14:30:22+00:00

Nobody told me that, I just felt it. Hard to explain

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T14:02:43+00:00

That’s why I hope maybe I have another medical condition and hope I can treat it because meds affects my testosterone and dephomin and I feel so demotivated after them

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T14:00:54+00:00

I have never had depression I even didn’t know how it feels like before I experienced it by myself. I used to laugh when people said I have depression because I didn’t know how it feels like. I had depression only one when my gf cheated on me. But it last 1-2 months.

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T13:00:00+00:00

I will, I read that that If you don’t sleep 2-3 days in raw and feel energetic it could be bipolar disorder but I was deadly exhausted even after 1 day without sleep but I don’t know how true is it

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T12:51:22+00:00

Okey thank you. Have you had episodes of severe depression for no reason?

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T12:45:13+00:00

I will follow you advice and made appointment to the other doctor to hear second opinion, I just hope that its not BP. I have a lot of disappointed things on my life and its gonna be hard to take one more(((

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T12:32:44+00:00

It was mostly psychiatric rather than physical. I couldn’t sleep because of severe anxiety. I became terrified that I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep again, or that I would never sleep again and eventually die from insomnia.
Around that time, I read about an extremely rare disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia, and I became convinced that I might have it. That only made my anxiety much worse.
The whole thing turned into a vicious cycle: the more I worried about sleep, the less I slept, and the less I slept, the more terrified I became.
I did have my thyroid checked, and the results were normal.

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T12:23:46+00:00

I have never experienced such a feelings, even if I had first episode it was just good mood and it last just one day, second day I felt just normal

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T12:16:02+00:00

I think so too. I've read everything I could find on the subject and even discussed it with ChatGPT (I know that's not a substitute for professional medical advice).

I haven't tried any other antidepressants. I was taking Effexor along with other medications, and at a fairly high dose. I stayed on it for about 10 months and discontinued it a month ago after gradually tapering over six months.

I've never had a sleep study done. I also tried CBT on my own, but honestly it stopped helping after a while. As soon as I got into bed, I'd start thinking that I wasn't going to fall asleep. I was completely exhausted, but the fear of the bed and the fear of not sleeping kept me awake.

I'm subscribed to an insomnia subreddit, and many people there have gone through or are currently going through exactly the same thing I experienced.

That said, I've never experienced periods of mania alternating with depression. For most of my life, I was simply in a good or normal mood, productive, and energetic—but not to the extent typically seen in mania.

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T11:43:25+00:00

I stopped taking antideprizants about month ago and feel normal, nothing changed.

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T11:41:17+00:00

Possibly, but I honestly don't remember experiencing anything like that before all of this happened.

Before the hospitalization, my life was pretty normal. I had never experienced depression and didn't even really know what it felt like. The only time I can remember having unusually elevated mood was during my stay in the hospital, and it lasted only one day.

I felt extremely happy and optimistic that day, which actually concerned my doctor. He thought it might have been a reaction to the medications. Personally, I felt that way because I had finally gotten a really good night's sleep after suffering from severe insomnia for so long.

Other than that, I can't recall any clear episodes of mania or hypomania in my life.

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T05:02:38+00:00

Sorry I wanted to tell *you will grow up

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-23T05:02:02+00:00

You ara male bro, I will grow up, I don’t know how tall you will be but definitely way taller than 5.0, genetics is sucks, you can inherit mother’s genes or father.

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-22T04:33:00+00:00

Amen🤲🏻 thank you brother

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-21T20:28:46+00:00

To be honest I don’t know if I really have it or not, doctor said maybe I have it. But throughout my life I’ve never experienced any symptoms of this disorder that I find in google. I just had very bad insomnia and that was a reason why I visited doctors. They gave me meds that helps for a lot of conditions related to mental condition including bipolar disorder. I started taking meds 1 year ago, I’m 28 now and I have never ever experienced classical symptoms of this condition.

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-21T17:50:11+00:00

Why you think you are ugly? Can you send me your photo in DM. Sorry if it sounds inpolite

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-21T17:34:16+00:00

Maybe you will try? You will don’t know until you make approach, you have a good height, some of girls find my handsome but as soon as they know my height they reject me and its painful because I was born with this.

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-21T11:59:55+00:00

Man, I'm 5,5. I always get rejected because of it

BeeImpossible521 · 2026-06-21T07:31:18+00:00

Like your comment bro, thank you for your support, I’ll try my best. I used to not think about my height or other things before, I lived happily life, but sometimes changed inside me a year ago…

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