(First an apology for using the mobile formatting)

Alright y’all. Here’s my story of diagnosis is the shortest form possible

At 14 I was diagnosed with Anxiety and started taking Hydroxyzine, began DBT and CBT and individual therapy 

At 17, I began taking medication for insomnia 

I have had several eating disorders, definite teenage anger at parents/the world (but not more than normal), and have always been productive. Of course I had moments were I checked the “boxes” of BP depression, but I was diagnosed with situational and seasonal. 

No meds age 19-21

MASSIVE trauma happened when I was 22, and the college doc prescribed me an SSRI (you can see where this is going)

Anyways, it accelerated my already hypomanic state and I was diagnosed with Bipolar (and PTSD, but that’s not the point)

~ anyone else genuinely surprised by their diagnosis? I have always been high functioning, never hospitalized, average grades, good lifestyle (vegan and gluten free, love exercise). I have family members who are schizophrenic and Bipolar, yet I was surprised at my own diagnosis because I never felt “truly unstable”. 

(My psych says I ‘internalize my depression’ and use my hypo for ‘positive and helpful things’)