PatientsLikeMe : ProfessorBeeker's Mood Conditions Profile

ProfessorBeeker

Male, 28 years
Towson, MD

ProfessorBeeker: Data Quality: 3 stars; Bipolar; Depression: 2; Emotional: 1; Compulsion: 2; Anxiety: 1; Mania: 2; Physical: 1; External Stress: Severe; Rx Therapy; 28 M; Function: Moderate; Distress: Moderate; See profile

Member since: 09/08
Last updated: 11/21/08

Condition Summary
Bipolar

About Me
I was first mildly depressed at about 10 years old. I was 17 when I had my first thoughts of self-harm. Early in college I experienced my first true episode of major depression and was sent home from school for 6 months. When I graduated college things completely collapsed. I went inpatient 8 times in 2 years, during which time I had 2 suicide attempts. I have only been inpatient twice in the past 3 years, although I often feel passively suicidal. In the past 5 years I have taken 18 psych meds and had 24 ECT's. I am diagnosed as Bipolar II with Borderline.