Newly diagnosed as bipolar [View All]

Last month, I had a grade 1 meningioma removed that was pressing on my brain. At the time I was discharged, I was not prepared for the emotional recovery involved, so I committed myself.

At the follow-up appointment with a psychiatrist, I found out that the doc I saw in the hospital diagnosed me as bipolar. I didn't get the whole diagnosis, I just heard the word bipolar and was shocked; almost offended. How could that nice doctor have diagnosed me as bipolar? I don't really know much about it. For me, it is know comfort when someone says, "Oh, VanGough, Hemingway, and Kurt Cobain were bipolar!"

Can anyone point me to some good websites, or share their own experiences, please? :-(