I’ve been in counseling and on meds for a decade. I’ve had so many different diagnoses from many professionals over the years that I don’t know WHAT’s wrong with me. I have a history of panic attacks, now pretty controlled. I’ve also been diagnosed with major depressive & post-traumatic stress disorder (witnessed my infant child’s killing), bipolar disorder, personality disorder-NOS. I’ve had awful, med-resistant, chronic insomnia all that time, and my therapists have described me as in constant state of "hyper-vigilance." I’ve had a couple of very brief psychotic episodes & what some might call mania. My most recent therapist has pretty much started from scratch with me, getting her own impressions of me over a period of four months now. She says she hasn’t seen bipolar, symptoms, rather, a woman with PTSD, severe sleep deprivation & unaddressed adult ADD. After doing some reading on adult ADD, I am tending to agree with her, wondering if I’ve been getting wrong treatment a long time.

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