I’ve never posted here, I just got diagnosed for bipolar. I see a psychiatrist soon for a proper diagnosis and more info. I have NO CLUE how to digest this news. I’m happy I have a reasoning for my manic and anxiety, but scared also. If I’m saying anything offensive please correct me. The last thing I want to do is offend anyone, like I said I don’t know anything about bipolar so I need all the help and suggestions. Mostly parenting advice, but I’ll take any info I can get. I’ve read about it online but I’m not even sure what type I am. My mania lasts for forever. I had an episode last for almost a month before I got meds. Parenting is hard. I have 2 sons. One is 6, one is almost a year. I just got screened for bipolar last week by my family nurse practitioner. She’s fantastic! After battling postpartum depression, having a “break” from the depression, than having a manic episode so scary for weeks on end with no sleep, I thought it was postpartum anxiety. I took a mild anxiety med. 10 a day (6 every 6 hours was my limit.) It didn’t work. I had a bad bad bad manic episode last Sunday that made the mania I’d been dealing with the past two months seem like a cake walk. Called the doctor. Almost got admitted to inpatient. Fought like hell to avoid it. I told the nurse at my doctor that I think I’m bipolar and my doctor listened!!! She started me on Lamictal. It’s been amazing but I still have a terrible depression and anxiety. It keeps my mania away kind of. Helps my sleep kind of. I don’t want to crash my car into a wall anymore so that’s good. But how do I parent with this “mood disorder”? I had adhd and that I was used to. I’m not used to this. How am I supposed to control my tiny human’s mood swings when I can’t control mine? Help???