Starting to doubt my diagnosis
I've been diagnosed with BP2 at 26 y/o, that was 10 years ago. The episode back then was that of depression, with lots of insomnia and loss of appetite.
I had a major crisis at 29 y/o, basically wanted to uproot my life, and/or kill myself. Doc said I was rapid cycling, and I almost got hospitalized. I was adamantly against it, so I just spent a couple of days at home with my then boyfriend, heavily medicated, and after a week, I was ok again. I mean fully ok, like nothing ever happened. My therapist said it was normal for people with bipolar to come back from an episode so quickly.
Fast forward 7 years, I'm 36 now, have been on meds (50 mg sertraline, 25mg quetiapine) ever since and didn't have any episodes. I have even been pregnant and have a toddler now at home, but nothing is triggering me for it to escalate into a crisis. In the last 4 months , I have reduced quetiapine to only 12,5mg a day, because I have trouble falling asleep without it, otherwise I don't feel like I need it, because it just makes me tired and groggy the whole day. My doc said that at this dosage it's basically just a sleeping pill and that it does nothing for its intended purpose of stabilizing the mood (she said let's see how it goes - spoiler: great, boring no change except I'm less tired during the day)
Now, it might be of course, that the meds are working just fine for me and that my therapy and age are also contributing factors, but the more time passes, the more I doubt that I actually have bipolar. I *am* prone to depressive thoughts and behavior patterns (and have always been), so the depression part is definitely correct. But I just can't shake off the feeling that something is not right with the BP2 diagnosis.
A while ago, I came across a funny post here on Reddit how people who have ADHD tend to get sleepy after drinking coffee (science behind it being that ADHD brains needs stimulants to calm down, and since caffeine is a stimulant, it kinda works like that, I am paraphrasing here). I found it odd, because I always experience that, so I just read a bit about ADHD and SO MANY of the symptoms are what I live through daily.
So I guess my question is, has any one of you experienced being misdiagnosed or even having a combo of BP and ADHD?
I might be rambling here, but I've been having these thoughts for a while and this is the first time trying to structure them.