Hi cwam!!!
I guess I would have to say that when my depression would not entirely go away. I never had any relief from any one kind of medication from my early adulthood. It wasn't until a year ago that I finally told my fdoc that this wasn't right
and I couldn't keep adding anti depressants to the list. He sent me to a pdoc to be diagnosed. After about an hour with him he told me I was suffering from bipolar 1 disorder.
That I probably always had this since my mid to late teens,
and carried this stigma around the last 30+ years. I was misdiagnosed about 30 years ago.
I have been on the right meds. now for the past year, and I feel better than I've felt my whole life!!!! boy, what a waste
spending all those years so miserable.
There is a family history of disorders in my family, but being from a proud southern matriarch....in those days you just didn't air your dirty laundry!!!

You just took it on the cuff and made do with it.
I am better today because I shunned that old family laundry
stuff. I wanted to feel better...........now I do!!!