I just experienced today what it means to have bipolar depression, which I have. It was classic bipolar depression. In the early afternoon, I felt revved up and euphoric. I thought I could do anything. Now, in the early evening, I'm back to my usual self: feeling down and hopeless. My pdoc was right with diagnosing me with bipolar depression. It's a diagnosis that's easy to miss and mistake it for unipolar depression, and bipolar depression has to be treated differently than unipolar depression. That's why I'm on Latuda. But my pdoc, over quite a few sessions, noticed how I was up on some visits and how I was down on others. Being down is my usual state. I didn't think I was up on some visits, but he told me that I was. I guess it's a difficult diagnosis to make, especially when you're just seeing a person a couple of times. But over the course of many visits, it becomes much more apparent. I don't know why this diagnosis was missed over the many years that I've been seeing someone.