Should I get checked for bipolar disorder?

No they will not be able to diagnose or do anything for you. They won't be able to diagnose because you don't have any of the symptoms. Tell your girlfriend to stop worrying so much lol.

Here's a website:

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=4360356&ref=http%...

Your gf is speaking from utter ignorance - there is no test for bipolar disorder! If someone has mania and severe depression, that's what leads to a diagnosis. Get this diagnosis, and you can't be a pilot, commercial truck or ferry driver, in the military, or a doctor. You probably can't be a cop or work for the FBI or anything else that requires a background check. You won't be able to buy life insurance at normal prices. She knows nothing and thinks bipolar is some la la wonderful thing. I am very sorry I ever sought help for bipolar disorder 20 years ago - the treatment only made matters worse for 15 years and the drugs turned a struggling person into a totally disabled one. I'm clawing back my life now, off those drugs.

Bipolar is VASTLY overdiagnosed right now, and if your dad was diagnosed with anything but bipolar 1, and he's not had clear cut manias ( drug side effects don't count), you should be suspicious if that diagnosis is even right. If he does have bipolar 1, at MOST your risk is 20%, and many people say those studies are bogus, because they didn't do the statistics correctly, overestimating the genetic effects.

There is NO TEST for bipolar at all. If bipolar turns out to be genetic, which that's not a sure thing, there must be MANY causes of bipolar or the genes would have been figured out already thru human genome research. Just because something runs in families doesn't make it genetic. Could be epigenetic, could be toxic learning, or developmental etc.

Studies have already shown that if there is a family history of bipolar, your chances increase. I believe the risk is around 25% if you have a sibling with it and 50% when you have a parent with it. If your girlfriend has concerns about you showing possible symptoms then I would talk to a doctor.

I don't think they can test to see if you're gonna have bipolar later on in life.Most people are diagnosed in their early twenties,but there are some who slip through the cracks & don't find out til alot later.It is very possible that if your dad has it,you can have it,but if you aren't having any symptoms there is no reason to check.The good thing is,when you know someone who has it,then you can really tell what to look for.Hope this helps,good luck!

Bipolar ailment is a temper ailment which outcomes a persons' temper and is led to by ability of chemical imbalances contained in the ideas. In bipolar ailment a man or woman has temper swings from melancholy to mania which ought to final 7 days each to be clinically determined yet usually final weeks or months at a time. I progressed bipolar whilst i replaced into 15 and clinically determined at 18, whilst i replaced into depressed i could sleep consistently, cry, does no longer circulate away mattress for days, did no longer eat, wash, costume, consistently felt suicidal, hopeless and valueless, withdrew myself from acquaintances and kinfolk and stopped going to college. This lasted for 6 months. Then I switched into mania whilst i replaced into consistently packed with potential and felt like i replaced into on appropriate of the worldwide i replaced into so chuffed, did no longer sleep for days and if I did i could sleep as much as 3 hours in basic terms yet felt thoroughly wide awake and packed with potential, went out each night abusing alcohol and medicines, have been given into meaningless dating, had intercourse with strangers, had plenty self belief, spent each penny I had or maybe stole from my mum, save lifted, racing ideas, aggressive and irritable, psychotic whilst i could hallucinate and be delusional to the factor I stabbed myself and virtually my boyfriend, i replaced into consistently doing one portion of the subsequent and that i virtually failed college. This lasted for 4 months. Bipolar ailment is something it quite is amazingly severe and outcomes your daily existence. i complete up being hospitalised using fact i replaced into psychotic, hallucinating and delusional. would not sound like Bipolar, sounds such as you have classes of melancholy and the temper swings are using teenage hormones. you do no longer sound Bipolar in any respect. you are going to be able to desire to work out your GP and clarify your indications of melancholy so they could examine you for it. A GP can diagnose melancholy, in basic terms a psychiatrist can diagnose Bipolar.