I am so confused! Let's start at the beginning. At approximately age 8 i was diagnosed with ADHD. Age 27 (currently) i have a baby and immediately i experience "the baby blues" i went two weeks later to my practitioner who diagnosed me with severe postpartum depression. My husband works away and is only home about 1 week a month. He left the day after I got home from the hospital so i was alone with a 3 year old and a newborn. My mom said she would help me if i went to her house but she just was too tired to come and help. I'm essentially on my own. I've been in therapy and just saw a psychiatrist (3 months postpartum) who thinks one possible scenario is that shortly after i had the baby i had a breakdown of sorts. a switch was turned on (bipolar) and now i have that triggered by postpartum. So was I never ADHD to begin with, a misdiagnosis or can you really just become bipolar one day? I'm being scheduled for psychological testing. Are things different now that they can make a make a proper ADHD or bipolar disorder?