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7 Lessons Learned From My Bipolar Diagnosis Journey

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I thought I had depression, and that’s what I was first diagnosed with. Later, I learned that I really had bipolar disorder, type 2, with an anxiety disorder on top of it.

Here’s what I learned on my journey to a proper diagnosis. 1. I began understanding past behaviors.  Once I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a lot of things from my life started making more sense.

I finally realized some of the inane things I thought and did as a child/teen were attributable to hypomania. Being silly happy when I won a goldfish at a carnival, carrying it before me, grinning like a loon.

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