I learned at a very young age that my father, was, in fact, not my real father, and that I had been adopted. It is a complicated story, but this knowledge made me very insecure and basically gave me a negative view of life and the world. I often wonder if that had not happened to me, if I would have still ended up being bipolar. My feeling is no, I would have been fine and that my bipolar disorder would never have developed.

Do you agree? Do you have any similar experiences?

By the way, my biological father, who I first met in my twenties, turned out to be bipolar, an alcoholic, a school teacher, and a fly fisherman, just like me.