Could I be bi-polar?!

Could I be bi-polar?

I'm 14 years old and I think I could be bi-polar. I know that when you're bi-polar you go from being really happy to suddenly really depressed. I'm not sure I'm ever really happy, but I can be totally alright and then something stupid happens, like I drop my cell phone or something and I'll lose it. I'll get so mad and start yelling at everyone. I really don't know what's going on with my stupid brain anymore. I've already been diagnosed with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. And I'm a guy so I'm not just PMSing. Do you think I could be bi-polar?

1 month ago
Captain Jack, I don't need an attitude adjustment jagoff. Everyone thinks I'm just a stupid spoiled teenager. The only reason I get so mad over little things is because I put so much more meaning into them. Like if I drop something, like
I said, I'll think that means I'm a klutz freak. No one will ever understand.

1 month ago
But, the_only_solorose, I have a couple friends diagnosed this young. And a lot of kids my age have depression. I'm on meds for it. And the obsessive-compulsive disorder I know I have.

1 month ago
Please no one else tell me I'm a typical teenager. Typical teenagers haven't gone to psych hospitals for being suicidal...

1 month ago
Thanks whoever gave Captain Jack a thumbs down.

1 month ago
Sorry des I don't even know what CBT is.

1 month ago
Captain Jack, it's not ******* funny. I hope some day you know what this feels like.

1 month ago
Captain Jack, I doubt you have been. Then you'd understand. And I do deal with it. I deal with a lot.

No, you don't need an attitude ajustment, you sound like a very intelligent and compshionate young man. You have very high expectations for yourself and you are way too hard on yourself just try to relax and go with the flow. I had the same diagnosis as you at your age and by the time I was 21 I had about 6 diagnosese and they put me on every medication they had. Happiness doesn't come in a pill and a diagnosis is an easy way to over look you and your feelings. Don't give up on yourself a diagnosis is just a word that will only hurt you if you accept it, and it will cause you and everyone to forget about all of your individual feels of your personality.

I want to ask do you like your parents? How well do they treat you? Why hasn't anyone explained what you feel? You probably have heard it before but you are at the age when your body is changing and depression is a very normal state to be in at your age. It will go away a little later, but if you start believing in a diagnosis it will take longer and will get worse. Never let people catagorize you, you are a nomal person and a single word does not define you.

I feel you don't have the support and love you need and that is the only problem you could have, and that is not your fault at all. It sounds like you are smarter than the people around you, which is usualy the reason that you have trouble relating. Find smarter people to learn from, like people who are not judgmental. Be open minded and honest with yourself, even though you are smart enough to be an adult just be young and have fun. Remember this is your life and making yourself happy should be a top priority, not pleasing others. If you do get mad at something you do don't blame others, just learn from your mistakes. If someone hurts you tell them how you feel and what they did to you, in other words don't hold onto negitive feels. And above all never tell yourself negitive things like you have a stupid brain, you will just loose your own self respect and confidence.

Be yourself and do what makes you happy you have a lot to offer and to look forward to, but you also have a lot of people trying to keep you down, just be stronger than them. You can write me if you want, I like to help people to not go through what I did, I believed I had problems like they said and it is a struggle for me still. You don't have problems and are compleatly normal (except being more intelligent), don't worry about anything.