I had a pretty normal high school experience until my senior year when I became severely depressed and thought about suicide. Luckily my parents sent me to a pdoc and a therapist, but that was just the beginning of my issues. It wasn't until I was 20 or 21 that I was disagnosed with major depression disorder and GAD and now I'm 38 and newly disagnosed with BP2. I'm not sure there was such a thing 20 years ago or if I was just misdiagnosed. Or maybe it didn't present until later?