Yeah. I felt like I had it taken away, then it came back. To elaborate, when I was a kid I have severe emotional impairment. I would get upset at something and scream and yell in school even during class. This was bad and I did it as old as 16. I had several other abnormal behaviors too. The thing about this is that I'm smart. I was told that if I didn't have the emotion impairment, I could have skipped grades.

In college and during my first few jobs I was stable. But then in 2007 more adult-like mental illness hit me. I have to take medication that caused me to develop diabetes. After what happened in 2007 I tried to work again but on the meds I couldn't. Now I'm on SSI and me and my husband have so little money sometimes we run out of basic things and can't buy them.

I do have lots of intelligence but I feel like the mental illness in childhood and adulthood ruined my life and I can't get it back.