Hi Natalya

I am 35 and just diagnosed with Bipolar 1. Just to echo Lauru about feeling robbed of your younger years - that is so true! And I lose so much heart when people talk about what they've accomplished, because my experience of undiagnosed, untreated bipolar is of constant devastating disruption. I haven't even had a partner that lasted a cycle, never mind a job. I'm lucky not to be homeless, and that's thanks to my mother.

Perhaps now though there is hope for the future. Maybe.