I guess I knew I might be bipolar from a pretty young age- probably 14 or 15. However I wasn’t officially diagnosed until age 29. I experience mania in the form of high irritability and high risk behaviors. I also experience intense lows, and at times those lows result in suicidal ideation, and even attempts…
I didn’t really realize at the time what was happening, but now looking back I can see that I was experiencing symptoms of bipolar back when I was 11 years old. I didn’t really have any language or framework to talk about or understand how I was feeling until much later. I was experiencing serious…
The first sign my mental health was going downhill was getting hit like a tonne of bricks with anxiety, panic disorder and OCD the week I found out I was pregnant with my first child. I was treated and things were okay for a few years. Then I fell into a deep dark depression that…
I first noticed something wasn’t right as a teenager. I experienced symptoms of depression like sadness, withdrawal, and insomnia. The withdrawal was pretty intense. I ended up dropping out of school for almost an entire year. I experienced symptoms of mania a few years later in college. One of the most intense symptoms was lack…
I began to distance myself from a lot of kids my age when I was around eight years old because I was way more sensitive to emotional issues than others were, and was often excluded because of it. The symptoms of bipolar range in a variety of ways, but I experimented with very risky behaviours…
My path to a BPD diagnosis began four years ago. I fell in love with a guy, but he didn’t love me back. He instead started dating my best friend. Then they broke up and he stopped talking to me and I totally fell apart. I started crying every day and I started hurting myself….
I first started becoming aware that something wasn’t right when my family and friends were becoming worried and telling me how extreme my moods were, but it wasn’t until I had my first major mania episode and ended up hospitalised that I finally admitted there was a problem. For me, mania feels like the world…
I’ve always gotten into trouble and had ups and downs since I was a kid; self harm since middle school, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and bouts of rage. But after my mom died when I was 29 (five years ago), I thought I might have developed autistic traits- extreme sensory overload, agitation, obsessions and constant listing…
I’ve felt like something wasn’t right my entire life, but my moods started to really form their ups and downs around my teenage years. I’d have periods where I’d feel like I was on top of the world, as if driven by a motor and being really productive and creative. But these were always followed…
I got my diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder in my 40s. However I have had Bipolar Type 2 since my late teens. Back then it was called manic depressive disorder. I noticed that I had symptoms when I was 17. But back then there was only really awareness of Bipolar 1. I was either depressed or…