Am I misdiagnosed as ptsd when I am bipolar?!?'

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Hello there
I am diagnosed with severe anxiety and ptsd and on strong medications to help me
Love normally.

Myself, family, professionals and online tests reveal I may have been misdiagnosed and my episodes and outbursts and how I feel daily etc is more bipolar than ptsd. I have taken more than 20 online test which reveal sever bipolar disorder. I may be on completely wrong medication and treatment as anticipated and being treated for the wrong problem.

Any advice etc as thinking of ringing so it’s tomorrow as been suffering since 2014 and not feeling like treatment is right for what I’m feeling (wrong diagnosis was diagnosed In 2015) but I don’t fit criteria at all

Advice appreciated

You need to speak to your GP or mental health team/ psychiatrists and discuss it with them.
Keep a mood diary so both you and they have a bit of a picture of what's going on with your moods.

Well, are you traumatised or not?

If you've experienced trauma then pretending you don't and trying to treat symptoms instead of the root cause won't help. Presumably you wouldn't have received a PTSD diagnosis without identifiable trauma?

PTSD can cause emotional dysregulation, anger, outbursts...

What User said. Many symptoms of trauma appear like symptoms of bipolar. And to be honest, many people (women) are diagnosed with bipolar disorder and medicated for that when in fact they're traumatised and the underlying issues have never been dealt with.

Meaning it's rare - although not impossible - for it to be your way around.

@DeKraai

What User said. Many symptoms of trauma appear like symptoms of bipolar. And to be honest, many people (women) are diagnosed with bipolar disorder and medicated for that when in fact they're traumatised and the underlying issues have never been dealt with.

Yes, it’s far more common to be misdiagnosed bipolar than the other way around.

Why did they think you had PTSD OP?

It's possible to have PTSD and bipolar disorder.

OP needs to seek advice from mental health professionals.

If you think you have bipolar I would suggest you keep a mood diary for a few months focusing on symptoms, anything that triggered the symptoms and what is going on in your life at the time.

Bipolar moods generally change slowly so it can take a while for the patterns to reveal themselves