I was about 19 or 20 when I was first diagnosed. I was going through a divorce and I had a nervous break down I had also had got arrested for driving at 155 in a 65 I was going to flip my car and kill myself. Well I ended up in the hospital for three weeks. Well I took my medications for about three months and I quit taking them. I went about 17 years without I was mostly manic during these years. Well several years ago while I was driving my semi truck I had accident that was not my fault. I thought I had killed this person who hit my my truck just from the looks of his pickup. I was lucky and he was fine. This pushed me way over the edge and later my pdoc told me I also now suffer from PTSD along with being bipolar. I sold my truck and trailer cause I was no longer safe to drive as I now started to rapid cycle. Well after I quit I went two years without treatment and was just a wholly terror to my family I did not hit them but I yelled and screamed all the time and hit walls and broke things. Well I broke down one time and my wife told me I needed help or she was done. Well that was the first of four times that I hospitalized. Well the last time they got me the right medication and I have been stable for the last couple of months.

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