Apparently I’ve been depressed for 20 years and now I’m bipolar…
ok so it’s not that straightforward but that’s how it seems when you receive the diagnosis. Now all of a sudden I am important to the NHS, I have a key worker, 2 physicians, a bipolar nurse and am waiting to go on a course… gone are the endless rounds of aimless therapy, plodding on without any real tragedy or life informing event to discuss… gone are the multifarious changes if antipsychotic drugs… now I’m on a completely new merry go round of antipsychotics, new therapy without end and even more drugs than my addled brain can handle… am I any better off???
From mad to madness: One man's descent into fatherhood as a Bipolar Bulimic Ex-Alcoholics 