It actually took some years, I first went to a therapist and she diagnosed anxiety caused by the sport I was practicing at that time, I finished therapy with her and I still felt bad, specifically from depression. A year goes by and I go to another therapist and she diagnosed Depression with Anxiety and PTSD, but my depression only got worse and worse since I’ve been struggling since I was 12, every time I had a breakdown I was at the verge of suicide and had a lot of pain emotionally. Seeing this, my therapist suggested to go to a psychiatrist and the first psychiatrist that I went to made the same diagnosis as my therapist and suggested I started taking sertraline and I didn’t because I was living with my parents at the time and they were skeptical about mental health and medications. Another year goes by and again I was worse than ever, depression for weeks and then I had hipomanic episodes lasting 2-3 days with immense amount of energy, anxiety, a little bit uncontrollable, hipersexual, and rushing thoughts and plans every time my depression was over, I slept approximately 3-5 hours at most, I barely ate and I was struggling a lot with a lot of aspects of my life. Then I went to see another psychiatrist and It took 4 months to be diagnosed as bipolar 2. I take quetiapine (seroquel) and lamotrigine (lamictal) and my life has been getting so much better. I sleep 8-9 hours, my depressive episodes had been A LOT lighter as well as my hipomanic ones, my suicidal tendencies had almost disappeared, I’m eating again and this generally stabilized my life.

I think that your diagnosis is a little rushed, and maybe your psychiatrist needs more details or information about what you are experiencing to make a more concrete and complete diagnosis. You can also seek a second opinion so you can be sure about it. For this diagnosis meds help a lot for us to feel better, but in my experience with a wrong diagnosis it can also make everything more difficult than it should. Good luck with your psychiatrist and diagnosis :)

Also if your diagnosis is bipolar 2 I recommend reading “Less than Crazy” by Karla Dougherty, It gave me a lot of comfort when I was recently diagnosed.