You probably know this, but for the benefit of other readers, bipolar disorder masquerading as major depression until flushed out into mania by SSRIs is a commo

You probably know this, but for the benefit of other readers, bipolar disorder masquerading as major depression until flushed out into mania by SSRIs is a common (and dangerous) enough misdiagnosis that psychiatrists avoid prescribing SSRIs for depression until they're confident that enough time has passed that they're not dealing with bipolar disorder. It's basically the go to example of one disorder being mistaken for another. There's a milder form of bipolar disorder called cyclothymia that is rarely diagnosed unless a patient seeks psychiatric care for a different reason. Estimates suggest it's fairly common, potentially up to 1% of the population.