I am sorry that happened to you. That's so frustrating.
I was misdiagnosed and given the wrong meds at the begining of my illness as well. When they finally got the right combination I started to do better. My docs are saying I will probably never be a 100 percent free of either the anxiety or the depression, because its a combination of factors that caused it in my case, both biological and enviromental, and it just became part of my personality. They say I can continue to learn to manage it better with meds, therapy, etc. The anxiety is actually the harder of the two for me to get a handle on.
The stereotypes associated with bipolar have to be hard to deal with as well. 
You have helped me understand my cousin's situation a lot more. I love her and want to help. I just needed to get some insight first.
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