Hi. I don't know where to post this, so I decided to post on this community on Lemmy. If I posted on Reddit, I'd probably get shit on or they'd delete my post because it keeps saying "removed by filters".
Anyway, I'm not asking for a 100% diagnosis and I will tell a medical professional.
So, I suddenly started feeling disorganized thoughts and started thinking illogically. This does happen sometimes. If I were to talk to someone, I'd have very impulsive, emotional behaviors and I would definitely say things I normally wouldn't say otherwise. I'm trying to calm down from it and talk about it because I WILL explode if I bottle it up.
I will feel really energetic and happy like I have recently, full of ideas but unsure where to start. It does sorta feel like my ADHD due to not being able to focus and not doing things that are "boring" or too analytical.
Well, then I started having some pretty bad intrusive thoughts. I couldn't shake the feeling, though I knew it didn't logically make sense, that everyone was acting weird and was trying to hurt me. Sometimes, when people change their tone or act weird, I think I'm in a different dimension, one of the things my brain tries to convince me.
There was one time I really felt motivated and thought I could be like Indiana Jones.
One time, about 2 years ago, I was going through a rough period and I think I'd gotten diagnosed with bipolar later in that year. Well, I can't tell if it's anxiety, mania, or psychosis signs, but I genuinely couldn't shake the feeling that my friends acting different was because they'd been replaced by aliens or I was sent to some sort of dimension/universe where my friends didn't exist and had been replaced by evil people, rather than just the logical conclusion that they were upset, which turned out to actually be that they were cruel pieces of shit, but that's beside the point.
Sure, they "treat" bipolar disorder, but they also treat other diagnosis with similar symptoms. They're mostly treating symptoms, not the bipolar disorder, but the argument is a semantic one.
Look up your drug and see if it's used with any other illnesses. You'll likely find that it's proven effective with other psychotic disorders if it's an antipsychotic, or other mood disorders if it's a mood stabilizer. If we're talking lithium then it's mostly just bipolar disorder, but you still might see that used for treatment resistant depression.
Whether you say your medicine treats bipolar disorder or not is mainly semantics. They're treating the worst of your symptoms that interfere with your life specifically. The diagnosis often matters a hell of a lot less than what symptoms you describe to your doctor. There's a reason why bipolar people aren't all given the same drugs.
And as for what i'm suggesting to OP, they should be telling their psychiatrist their symptoms rather than focusing on what diagnosis it could be. That's my core point. Even if they got diagnosed with bipolar disorder, that doesn't mean they should necessarily take the same thing as yourself.