Believe me, I know that high intelligence can skew a professional’s diagnosis. But the underlying disorder is still the same and still treatable with essentially the same methods. You have to shop around a bit anyway to find someone you can work with, and even more so if you are high functioning and cope well.
There’s no reason you can’t do things traditionally as a baseline, and then decide how to proceed; mania is a terrible place to make a decision from.
Believe me, I know that high intelligence can skew a professional’s diagnosis. But the underlying disorder is still the same and still treatable with essentially the same methods. You have to shop around a bit anyway to find someone you can work with, and even more so if you are high functioning and cope well.
There’s no reason you can’t do things traditionally as a baseline, and then decide how to proceed; mania is a terrible place to make a decision from.