I remember being misdiagnosed as just depressed for fucking AGES and every antidepressant they would put me on made me manic and I would TELL THEM THAT and they would be like “hm. another one” and then years later I’m in the psych ward after a bad manic episode where I tried to drive my car off a bridge and the first fuckin thing out of my new psychiatrist’s mouth was “so how long have you been bipolar?” And I was like “oh fucking FINALLY”