The nurse practitioner I’m seeing about my ADHD diagnosed me with bipolar disorder
She literally could not have surprised me more if she tried
This makes no sense to me but it’s scaring me a lot :(
I don’t really remember having manic episodes? Depressive maybe but it’s usually after something bad happens to me and not really consistently…
I told her I put off making this appointment cuz I’ve been feeling really bad recently, then she just asked me a few questions like if people say I talk too much sometimes or if I do things impulsively and prescribed me an antipsychotic (aripiprazole) wtf
I asked some family and they haven’t noticed anything like this… idk :(. Has this happened to anyone else? Am I just in denial? I’m afraid to take this drug she gave cuz I really don’t need to be even more tired all the time… or tardive dyskinesia or something (unlikely, worst case)
Alot of practitions, especially old fashioned ones, don’t like treating adult ADD patients and go out of their way to find other diagnosis to check. While it isn’t a terrible instinct it is entirely possible for them to take it too far and you often hear about that bias. Like, for my first diagnosis I don’t think my doctor believed that I had it but prescribed the pills anyway to see if I’d lose some weight.