I [M22] just got "diagnosed" with bi polar 2, rapid cycling through Cerebral. I have struggled my whole life, probably since 10yo or younger but my family and insurance, as well as personal embarrassment, kept me from seeking help sooner. I'm not super convinced of Cerebral's screening process, but it defintiely makes since to me that I could be bipolar given the things i go through. I'm tired allll the time but I flip from not eating over sleeping and major fatigue, to staying out all night and overconsuming, people around me can tell when I'm going through different phases. I also have significant memory gaps that make it hard to recall my past and it also extends to mundane things like loosing my keys 100 times a day. The bipolar 2 diagnosis makes sense. They're mainly recommending I start off taking seroquel, or i can choose between a few other like geodon, olanzapine, lamotrigine or lamictal. I haven't done much research on the others but I've been looking into seroquel and it honestly sounds terrible. People say it makes them groggy and a zombie in exchange for not having mania. Not sure why they're recommending this since I'm already tired all the time and personally think my depressive episoded are more severe than the hypomania. Do any of you have experience with these drugs, or just starting psych meds the first time in general and what it's like? I really know nothing besides "feel better" and a list of shit side effects. Also does anybody have experience with Cerebral and if I should even be accepting the opinions of these "doctors" they kinda just come off as legal drug dealers to me. That being said I'm also a regular pot smoker and like to party a lot so I'll sometimes use stuff like molly, ket, or acid and i was wondering what it would be like doing these while possibly still having an anti-psychotic, or mood stabilizer, in my system. Thank you so much in advance for anyone willing to read this word vomit