I think a lot of that is bull**** though. It's one thing to be browsing WebMD and giving yourself all these "illnesses" but if you seriously suspect you have a specific one and really do match up with the symptoms and have for quite some time, you just may have it. Any type of mood affective disorder is really difficult to diagnose and can often be misdiagnosed. Like in the case of bipolar, the patient will only go to the doctor in a depressive episode and write off mania as happiness/productivity or whatever and they'll be given depression meds which in a lot of cases isn't all that great, and can often trigger or exacerbate mania. If not that, it won't take care of the manic side of it. A doctor isn't with you everyday, they don't know how you function and only know what you tell them.
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