The Diagnosis That Saved My Mental Health

Kelly Tompkins
6 min readFeb 28, 2022

Everything started to finally make sense.

Photo by Matthias Oberholzer on Unsplash

The year 2021 could also be known as “That time I went to a Psychiatrist for ADHD but left with a Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis” but that doesn’t quite roll off the tongue does it?

After a year of relating a little too hard to ADHD memes on the internet and wondering, is this not how everyone thinks? I finally decided to reach…

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Kelly Tompkins

Austin,Texas sober girl. Lover of horror movies, cats, and fitness. Occasional bad poet.