I have been depressed long since, I can remember real depression setting in at about seven, but I believe I might have been depressed even way earlier, around three. Anyway, my family situation was never easy, so it was also contextual. At 15 I became anorexic and started self-harm. I don't really remember ever being manic as a child, but I had times in adolescence when I was just SO ANGRY that I always wanted to destroy things and times when I became very productive in contrast to the depression that I usually dwelled in.