Relieved and Happier

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I figured out a lot of the complex things I was worried over in the past few weeks as well as the past five years. I was misdiagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at a young age, and now my therapist and psychiatrist worked together to find out my actual problems were different than that. I have basically, Bipolar and when I am manic I can have the psychosis symptoms luckily not too severely as I have bee on the right meds anyways, it's just not full schizophrenia. I also recently found out I've been diagnosed with Adhd, which is now being successfully treated. I am so relieved.

I am relieved, mostly because I can sit still and not feel impulsive. I feel like the missing piece has been filled. Everything is not loud and distracting or overstimulating anymore. I can be more myself in social situations, more relaxed and not always wanting to do something new. I also began exercising more recently. So this is all good news. I don't have schizophrenia and its been undiagnosed yay!! I never really had it or either way, it doesn't matter that much though cuz I am getting so much better through a lot of work on my part and others'.

Also, I've been doing this visualizaiton exercises everyday to orient myself in reality and focus. I am training my mind to do creative visualization again and it's starting to work! Before when depressed I couldn't do it, I had flat affect and inability to be very creative. Now I can once again. Now I feel confident enough that I could be a better friend as well, and once again be someone others come to for help and not the other way around. I usually am an easy person to talk to, but have been struggling a bit lately.

So I figured I'd post this to see if anyone can relate to Adhd and Bipolar, and also to just get it down so I can remember what it was and put things in order.

PS: It may seem like AS to others, Ithe difference is Bipolar is increasing your brain chemistry such as Dopamine and Seratonin until you wipe out, then get depressed essentially. I think AS people may have a different situation or chemistry, not quite sure though what causes AS or what it's like to have it, I just have similar traits because I'm both hyperactive, attention focus problems, and I have slight increased brain activity.

Well if you have only ADHD you are probably quite lucky with that, though Bipolar is really bad.

But if you are really lucky it isn't either that and just a kind of similar thing as a result of your ADHD.

Well Aspies I guess have the worst problem in missunderstanding or not understanding, perceiving the world differently
and getting depressed about being awkward, not knowing what to do.

Do you have problems to be able to know what others are feeling
or difficulties to understand what they actually want from you?

Take a word as a word and not understand the hidden message behind that?

And at the same time you feel misunderstood or you don't know what is wrong with you?

That kind of things would be typically Aspi, and those problems you probably can work on hard
but they will probably never vanish completely

That's very nice to hear. This stuff can be sorted out and there are meds that do work. I feel sorry for people who have these things very young when they don't have the experience of knowing what normal conditions are to compare things to. But good for you and I hope things continue to improve even more.

That's wonderful to know that your situation is improving. May it continue to be so.