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Hi, I was misdiagnosed bipolar

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I've had a living hell for over 20 years being misdiagnosed bipolar when I was a kid and just recently recognised by my therapist, GP and a consultant that I'm autistic and adhd.

There's no diagnosis yet, the aforementioned say Scottish health is one of the worst in the world right now. 

I've been putting in the heavy lifting of getting off multiple medications for misdiagnosis, there's one left that I'm working off of. I've been given at least 20 combinations of bipolar medications being told for over twenty years I need to keep trying them to find the one that works for me. 

It made life feel extra intolerable as an autistic person. So I'm on a journey now of trying to stay positive with the right information and embrace a diagnosis that actually fits.

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  • Welcome to the community, being misdiagnosed and over medicated is unfortunately a common experience here. In my case it was multiple times depression and tourette. There was also suspected epilepsy.  Meds never helped, only gave side effects. At age 35 i discovered, that the description of autism symptoms oddly fits me, later also suggested by my therapist, who I have therapy with. Also not diagnosed yet. I'm wondering, if maybe it's something else... but autism seems to fit best. It's bad, that the health services are not reliable. If I was going for diagnosis,  I would probably consider private. WIting 4+ years is too much for me.

  • in reply to Alien0n3arth

    If I could go private I would. Health is the best investment. That's what I feel about previous medications, I was only getting the poison effects 

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