I was a troubled child. I would look for reasons (excuses like feeling sick) to stay out of school. Sometimes I managed to be out for over a week at a time. Allot of my problem were my mood swings.

I believe I was bipolar since late grade school. There were times I was very depressed. Then I can be full of wild energy. I could not dot still. I would do cartwheels in the hallways of the school until the teacher realized I was missong. They just did not know what to call it back then.