My hurricane of bipolar did not hit until my first year in college. I had a little few month long storm of depression in highschool, but nothing like now. I perceive college as being the major trigger, but I am convinced that, no matter what, it was going to happen anyway. College may have brought it out, but so many other things could have as well.

My biological mother is textbook bipolar. I believe I had the genetic predisposition.