I had no idea I was bipolar when my symptoms emerged when I was 15, all I knew was that I was suffering from something abnormal. I knew nothing of psychiatric disorders until I was placed into a specialized psychiatric hospital in a different state. That's when my mother finally told me that my father was bipolar during an intake, but I denied help for my disorder for years because I didn't want to be associated with the disorder.

I was always different because of my autism and OCD as a child, but I never thought I would have a mood/thought disorder.