30 years old, diagnosed with depression at 13 and never took medication for it because "kids don't get depression" and the therapist my parents found assumed that it was brought on by the cross-state move we'd made a year and a half beforehand. I have a lot of problems with anxiety and always have. I think that it may have masked my manias, plus I have physical symptoms during depression so that's the kind of thing I'd go to the doctor for. I didn't actually get diagnosed bipolar until I was 24. I've been hospitalized before, yes, but what feels worse to me is my unemployment. I have had so much trouble finding and keeping a job. I don't think I've had one longer than two years since I left school.

Reading through the posts also confirms that I am one of the younger people here, something I'm not used to being on message boards.