I was diagnosed at 17. Could have been sooner symptoms were there including psychosis. My father was later diagnosed, must be said here, we did not have a relationship. I had plenty of trauma. I can remember being depressed at age 5. I do not have a lot of BPD symptoms.

I just watched a documentary showing a few people with bipolar, some pretty severe, who had nice families, money, low stress, no trauma lives. It was interesting.

I think (but am not sure) about the real difference between mania, and hypomania is level of functioning. ??