Heyo, I was diagnosed w bipolar 3 yesterday after like a week of feeling the best I ever have and then crashing in an awful way. I’m still manic somehow? After my like peak/weird disassociative episode that landed me in the ER. Anyway. I feel like I’m coming down. I’m still learning about this disorder but it’s ok because apparently everyone else is too 😂 that’s alright. I just figured if anyone would know it would be you guys. Should be starting meds tonight and then have therapy on Monday I believe. 

Bipolar 3 is not in the DSM 5 yet and I hadn’t even heard of it before but my psychiatrist explained that it’s when antidepressants cause your mania/bipolar disorder. Like I WAS just depressed but I had the audacity to try and treat it and the antidepressants and my brain thought it would be funny to make things worse lol. But also my mom had it so eh. Could’ve happened regardless I suppose. 

Anyway I just wanted to reach out and see if you guys wanted to know any more about bipolar 3, I could point you in the right direction because it’s a little hard to find info about it. Some of the info is confusing/conflicting but they’re still figuring it out is the vibe I caught. 

Also could use a support network of people who get it get it yknow? 

That’s about it. Not really but my fingers and brain won’t stop if I don’t actively stop myself 😂 every thought I have goes through them. 

Oh and I made a tik tok hoping to document the process of at lease the first part of my journey. I’m not selling anything but if this isn’t allowed let me know and I’ll just take the link out. This account is mainly to help raise awareness of what bipolar disorder can look like, especially in bipolar 3 patients because there isn’t much yet. You don’t even have to interact, if you just wanna take a peek here’s the link: https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPduYpj3D/