I guess I always I knew I was different, from a very young age...I intuited things different than people around me, but I also did some really crazy sexual stuff long before the age of sexual maturity....(red flag anyone?).

I went for years dx'd as ADHD, it wasn't until my 30s that I was diagnosed as BP2, and taken off amptheamines (which were exasperating my condition, to the point of pure mania) and put on gaba and Zoloft.

Now, I still go in to hypo states, but they are normally just exhibited as being really damn hyper...these are normally follow shortly after or concurrent with depressive episodes....and I will swing around in that state for a week or so...and then I level out again....

At first, I didn't want to accept it as my dad's best friend (and a dude I thought was really cool when I was growing up) was BP1 and ended up committing suicide in a very gruesome way...and I didn't want to accept that I had something akin what drove him to do that....but I finally accepted that my BP2 was not like his "Fly to South America and buy two Mackaw's on a whim" BP1...so...