Meltdowns and bipolar

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As I said earlier, when the doctor tried a couple SSRI meds on me one after another, they caused me to have severe meltdowns everyday.

When the doctor got rid of SSRIs and added Lamictal, the meltdowns completely stopped and my depression lifted but not into mania.

I'm much better now and I feel so much more functional, but it makes me question any autistic origin of meltdowns, even when I was a child and back then I had crippling meltdowns.

I still have special interests and bipolar wouldn't explain the fact I needed social skills classes when I was a child, but what if I am not really on the spectrum at all?

I still have people telling me I seem "on the spectrum" to them however...

Or can a bipolar, higher IQ person just resemble someone on the spectrum?

I don't even know why I care so much about the label anyway ...

You may have just a few traits of the spectrum - like Broad Autism Phenotype - and bipolar.
We can't tell it by an online forum.
If Lamictal helps you cope, then use it, I think.

Now looking at some of the rare side effects of SSRIs and the fact my "meltdowns" were making me convulse... Was I in fact having seizures and the Lamictal stopped them

Lordy I made up something convoluted or I need to tell the doctor... I was jerking so much one time I hurt my back and I sent me to the hospital...

Yes, tell the doctor.