At your age it is very hard to come up with a definitive Diagnosis of BiPolar Disorder which is a Chemical Imbalance in the Brain. The problem being at 16 you Frontal Lobe and Prefrontal Cortex haven't fully developed yet and won't until your around 19 or 20. So to say you have a Mental Illness that is based on Brain Chemistry being imbalanced when your brain isn't developed yet.....well it doesn't make sense.

There are many Mood Disorders and Mental Illnesses that have similar symptoms as BiPolar Disorders in children and teens. There are also many Pdocs who just call it BiPolar. I'm curious what your Med Cocktail is?

A true Treatment Plan for BiPolar is a Med Cocktail of several types of medication to correct the chemicals in the brain. It also includes Therapy to learn coping skills and strategies to manage life with moods that go back and forth between lows and highs. Talking about stress, life and trauma's is also important, holding all that crap in does you no good. Learning many different modalities of therapist is another way we control our BiPolar, i.e. Relaxation Therapy, Breathing Exercises, DBT, CBT, Journaling, different things that allow us to help our lives calm down and destress. There is no cure for BiPolar, it can be managed and treated but it takes a lot of hard work to make it work with your daily life and have the two mesh together successfully.

You are not alone. Although I'm an old fart that didn't learn I had BP till I was nearly 50 I was still feeling the same way as you until I discovered this site and listened to the opinions of people like OCP above. Others will contribute really helpful things too so don't forget to check back and see what is said.

Here is the best I have in a public setting. Learn calming breathing techniques (diaghramatic breathing) and use them when threatened by overwhelm and stress to ground and centre yourself. There you go :-)

If ur moods change that fast maybe you have emotional unstable personality disorder?

ok, thank you for all your guys input.
have you guys taken Saphris or Guanfacine,?
because i take those i dont think they work that good. i also take Levothyoxine.
and yeah im only 16 about to be 17. i do have alot of chemicals in my brain since i was a baby i have FAD which means fetal alcohol syndrome. thats what gave me so much mental problems in the first place. and by the way it gets worst drugs alcohol parents, foster care, adopted, abuse, adopted parents divorced, living with adopted dad, mental hospital 7 times. on and medicine all my life.

Welcome to the board Ever.... This is a good place to come and make friends

I am so sorry that you've been through so much sweetie..... Vent, vent, vent.....

Gentle hug.....xo

Just from reading what you've shared of your history Ever I wondered if Complex Trauma has ever been discussed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_post-traumatic_stress_disorder

I have had exactly the same problems as you are speaking of. Meds control it for the most part. Welcome to the board. I hope you will find much support here

You had a pretty rough start at life from the word go...and it sounds like you've been fighting through ever since. You sound tough, you don't give up, that's a very admirable quality.

Here's some info about the medications you take. Saphris is an Anti-Psychotic medication often used off-lable for Mood Disorders like Bi-Polar.

Guanfacine is a medication that reduces nerve impulses in your heart and blood vessels. It works by relaxing blood vessels, which lowers blood pressure and improves blood flow. Its often used for lowering Blood Pressure or Hypertension, so this may be given to you for some of the other medical issues that you deal with.

Levothyroxine is a thyroid medicine that replaces a hormone normally produced by your thyroid gland to regulate the body's energy and metabolism. Levothyroxine is given when the thyroid does not produce enough of this hormone on its own, its used for Hypothyroidism.

So if these are the meds you are on, only 1 is for the Mental issues, and normally BiPolar is treated with a combination of psych meds to treat the shifting moods of depression and/or hypomania.

You've been through a lot in your life, but that doesn't always have to be looked at as a negative...your a survivor, you've survived a lot, as many of us here have. Try thinking of it that way sometimes, thinking that you've survived a hell of a lot and you've got your whole adult life ahead of you, and a fighter like you, well you can do anything. Life isn't easy and dealing with a Mood Disorder makes it harder, but it doesn't make it impossible, it takes hard work and commitment to a good Treatment Plan, but you can have a good life with long periods of Stability.

Take care,
Kat

hey thank you for everything guys...

OlderCPer i take guanfacine for ADHA and ADD,

See you learn something new around here all the time. That is not a particular class of med that would be used to treat ADHD/ADD but it is.

hi Stati, are you bipolar?

Any reason why your last 8 posts have all been replies to Ever.Lasting who is a 16 year old girl across 5 or 6 boards inluding teen bipolar and teen anxiety?

I see you are a 45 year old man - are you her father?