My Experience of Bipolar.

I was diagnosed with Bipolar very late in life. Originally the diagnosis was Bipolar 2 but it has recently been changed to Bipolar 1. I am not sure why the consultant psychiatrist made the change, but I have suspicion one of the reasons was to justify prescribing lithium for me. My treating psychiatrist seemed unwilling to prescribe lithium so he sent me off to the consultant. The other factors which seem relevant are my belief, when manic or hypomanic, that I can influence people ( I do not care what anyone thinks, I can do that) and some frightening delusions I sometimes have when depressed (or dysphoric, I cannot tell them apart)

The first diagnosis came when I was 57