I'm diagnosed as PTSD and Major Depression. I'm on all the medications they use for Bipolar Disorder. It's the particular timing and quality of mood disorders that make a BP diagnosis. Sometimes anti-psychotics meds in low doses can be helpful. I want to ask a question about genetics.
People often confuse the inheritability of depression with actually having the disease.
We don't understand the relationship between genetics and mood disorders and we don't really understand the basic causes of these disorders. It is probably a combination of biology and life events. Obviously you inherit your biology but not your life events. One probably inherits a vulnerability to developing a mood disorder. This means the repeated stressors can kindle symptoms and that eventually the symptoms return without very much precipitant.