Charlie Ryder
Bio
Gen Z in college concerned with all things social, writing, witchy, advice, and coffee related.
Stories (2/0)
Coping with a Bipolar Diagnosis
I can’t cope with most things, let alone the diagnosis I received two years ago of Bipolar II. I was 20 years old as I re-entered the world of therapy, the first time since I was 15. I met with a woman, which was my only request. I didn’t yet know about shopping around for therapists or the different types of therapy. After an explosive friendship ending, where I had escalated the situation to nuclear levels, my therapist told me the news. I had Bipolar. I knew it was coming because I watched my dad struggle through it my entire life, but I had hoped it skipped me. She saw it in the way I cycled, quickly, through mania and depression. I had thought it was just depression because my mania usually looked like pulling an all-nighter and starting a new hobby, or finally cleaning my kitchen. She called it Bipolar II.
By Charlie Ryder2 years ago in Psyche