At 14 years old, I sat in a psychiatrist’s office with my mother and a pharmacist being handed a booklet on the dangers of mood stabilizer medicine.
I had just been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, after struggling with depression for two years with brief bouts of hypomania.
I was told I was very young to be diagnosed with bipolar let alone being given a mood stabilizer to treat it, but other medications had failed to control my moods.
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