i’m a 19 year old recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety. still working to better understand myself. i only recently realized that i may have been delusional in the past but am still unsure if i was just being confident/ambitious. 

like it’s easy to tell that when i was experimenting with edibles and believed that my mind could over power the affects of weed was delusion. but I’ve had periods of time where I’d truly believe that I am more talented/skilled than a professional in a given career field. as a college student this type of thinking leads me to completely change my career plans and shift my coursework to reflect it which as you can imagine is prolonging my studies. 

i only realize my grandeur thinking after the fact and it’s so embarrassing to look back and see how ridiculous i probably sounded. so how can i differentiate my ambition from delusion?