got diagnosed bipolar1 in 2004(26yrs old)- full blown mania, overthetop and hospitalized... 9 months earlier I was diagnosed with depression and put on Zoloft- which shot me up in mania.
I remember being hypomanic, sleeping very little and then getting depressed in my teens, around 16,17 yrs old. Depression was during wintertime and I worked like crazy during the summers... Should have gotten help earlier, but didn´t feel it was that "bad".