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Originally Posted by Supanova
Nope, my first depression came on at 12, no stress, no trigger that anyone has found, no reason. Out of the blue. I still get out of the blue mood shifts but I can identify triggers when there is one.
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Yeah, my first severe and prolonged depression (20) came out of nowhere. I was having a GREAT time prior to that (Hypo? Maybe, who knows?) and it totally sideswiped me. I was completely mystified, thinking there MUST be a reason, a situation. But there wasn't. I derailed. It was all swept under the rug.
Despite living a textbook BP II life, I wasn't dx'd for many years. It was only then that I realized that there WAS a cause for that first big depression, that I wasn't being stupid for not being able to point to anything situational triggering it. It was the BP.