I have Bipolar 2 depressive type on ssdi but wanna go to back to school. Anyone in a similar situation?
Afraid to lose benefits but I wanna try.
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Afraid to lose benefits but I wanna try.
Like any disease a person is diagnosed with, a battle ensues to try and beat it. Whether it is cancer, AIDS, asthma or something dealing in psychiatric disorders such as Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, there is always some fight going on once there is an official diagnosis made.
Psychiatric disorder Bipolar is among one of the mental disorders that patients cannot can’t beat but have to live with and try to overcome when the major symptoms of it begin to take hold. Basically, it’s a fight to become normal or have some sort of normalcy restored into their life
It is difficult to detect Bipolar disorder. Some people are diagnosed after having the disorder for more than ten years. The dual nature of the disorder is the reason for this delay. When a person is feeling manic or hypo manic, he feels good and is energetic. Only when he falls into a major depression he seeks treatment.
So when he visits the doctor and describes his symptoms they are only the depressive symptoms. As a result, the doctor commonly diagnoses him with depression instead of bipolar disorder. This mistake occurs frequently, also because bipolar disorder shares common symptoms with psychiatric illnesses like anxiety disorders and schizophrenia. This leads to a complication in the diagnosis.