Imagine what it would feel like if you were told that after 20 years you may not actually have Bipolar Disorder

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Imagine, if you will, being diagnosed with a variant of the mental condition known often as manic depression aka Bipolar Disorder, and given medications and counseling over 2 decades, only to be told, that after being off the medication due in large part, that it was hurting your kidney function and that you were off the medications said to be the most useful one out there, to treat your condition and that in spite of not taking it for over 6 months to a year, you seemed to be only manifesting symptoms of OCD, aka Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder. You walk out of that interview with a doctor who only sees you for about 20 minutes every 3 to 6 months, and catches you in a mood of a pretty normal mental state, and then forms the simplistic conclusion that you MAY NOT HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER AFTER ALL! It was a curve ball I didn't even see coming! You may not know it, but the disorder is very difficult to arrive at and in many cases, to actually come to the fundamental conclusion that a patient has Bipolar Disorder it may have actually taken over a decade of interviews at the clinic with that patient to be able to come to any real solid and substantive conclusive bench mark to actually say without a doubt that either that patient has in fact, a significant level of cognitive impairment or that perhaps, in some form or another, that patient may actually not have this particular type of condition but possibly another or you might come to the opposite conclusion and realize that not only does the patient have a definitive case of a specific variety of Bipolar or Mood Swing Disorder but in addition to it, some level of Obsessive-Compulsive-Adult-Attention-Deficit-Disorder and perhaps a certain level of high intellectual capacity as well, putting that patient in a complex situation of multiple emotional and cognitive disorders that only a long term treatment with CBT aka Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and self awareness can really provide the means for improvement of that patient in many ways other than just taking a simple pill and be on their way, letting fate take it's toll or run it's course. Wow! Wasn't that a very long sentence! read from Psychology Today's article below to find out about what the odds are for being misdiagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, put simply, a person with extreme moods that occur at times beyond his or her control, potentially having devastating results in the long term of living.