Tara McGillicuddy
ADHD/Bipolar or both?
Recently I spent a week in a mental hospital as a consequence of expressing suicidal ideation. The diagnosis they gave me at the hospital was bipolar mood disorder. They also listed ADHD as a secondary diagnosis, but only because I told them that. It was pretty clear that they did not think the ADHD was important. They didn’t talk like it mattered. I doubt they would have independently made that diagnosis themselves.When I was 18, I was hospitalized and diagnosed as bipolar (manic-depressive as…See More
