Speaking as someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I would be surprised if you don't have it. I'm not a doctor, but you remind me of myself a lot, and my problem lies with my disorder. However, I think that because you're just starting college you should take a little time to adjust to it and see if that's what the problem is. If it doesn't, I recommend a psychiatric evaluation. I didn't find out til I was 16, but once we (my parents and I) did, we realized I've had it for a very long time, if I wasn't born with it. It's very possible that college triggered it. That's what happened with me--I had an incident (a lot more insignificant than this) that immediately caused me to fall into a deep depression that came to a head 8 months later when I was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where I was diagnosed. I recommend that you record your feelings day-to-day in a notebook, then, if it doesn't go away at the end of the semester, take it with you or make a copy of it and go to a psychologist and get an opinion on this. Trust me, you want to take care of this--if it's not BPD, it is something very similar and it could be serious.
Is it normal to be happy one day and depressed the next?
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Speaking as someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I would be surprised if you don't have it. I'm not a doctor, but you remind me of myself a lot, and my problem lies with my disorder. However, I think that because you're just starting college you should take a little time to adjust to it and see if that's what the problem is. If it doesn't, I recommend a psychiatric evaluation. I didn't find out til I was 16, but once we (my parents and I) did, we realized I've had it for a very long time, if I wasn't born with it. It's very possible that college triggered it. That's what happened with me--I had an incident (a lot more insignificant than this) that immediately caused me to fall into a deep depression that came to a head 8 months later when I was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where I was diagnosed. I recommend that you record your feelings day-to-day in a notebook, then, if it doesn't go away at the end of the semester, take it with you or make a copy of it and go to a psychologist and get an opinion on this. Trust me, you want to take care of this--if it's not BPD, it is something very similar and it could be serious.