Diagnosed only as Major Depressive at age 7, all the other symptoms were ignored until age 3o, then diagnosed BP 2 into 2 decades now.

Emster:

Treatments have changed tremendously over the years for the better, I feel, especially knowing the history of where treatment options/limits have been in the past. They wii continue to improve as time goes on.

My acceptance was easy in that no one listened to me for so long; I knew the original diagnosis was only half the issue. So to have finally been heard and once we finally found meds and therapy that actually helped, it seemed a no brainer to me that it just confirmed what I knew all along but I just did not have a name for it; then again, it could have been called whatever, I just wanted the help for it.