Even though I was diagnosed only this past winter, looking back over the years I can see how my BP has gotten more disruptive, and the episodes closer together, than when I was younger. Even medicated, I still have breakthrough mini-episodes that aren't particularly intense, just "naggy" like something's slightly off-kilter, but I can't put my finger on it.

And the major episodes........well, they are simply horrid and they last for a long, long time. That also was not the case in my youth, and that worries me.