Domestic abuse was my trigger but in therapy there were symptoms back in HS. I dealt with the feeling that something was wrong by becoming Vegetarian and sugar free, it helped but I still had symptoms. Then when I was 24 I got married and everything went down hill. Work was my escape. I had my first hospitalization when I was 27. It was a real eye opener. At first I was diagnosed PTSD and Major depression then they changed it to BP and PTSD when I was around 30 but I continued to tell everyone it was MDD until recently.