i have read somewhere to that symptoms do diminish as we age. That has not been my experience. My symptoms were evident in childhood and really intensified in adolescence and my twenties. My thirties and forties my symptoms were still present, but I was able to function throughout most of those years. In my late forties, I crashed. It was due to trauma. At that point, I tried to hang on and for months, I did. But it was all I could do and I eventually was again no longer able to function. I have been that way for years. I am less likely to have the explosions I had as a teen, but I am much more depressed and more easily hurt by others. I am also less likely to trust any humans, myself or others, because I have seen how ugly we can be.