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I was diagnosed at age 19 after being hospitalized because of my anorexia. I had known something was wrong since I was in grade school, and I knew that I had depression, but I didn't realize that my "happy" times were actually hypomania. I also have mixed episodes; they are usually associated with bipolar 1, but I have never had the high mania, only hypomania, and I only had 1 psychotic episode, but that was because they put me on prozac, once they got me off the prozac it never happened again.
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From the movie The Hours: "If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that only I can know. Only I can understand my condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too."
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