I'd clearly had severe traumas as a young child, which had an impact. Then ongoing traumas and major losses. I was a straight A student, a standout athlete and student council president for several years. I finally had a meltdown inn my late teens, after a string of traumas. While diagnoses we unclear for several years, we'd settled upon Severe Atypical Major Depression, which became impossible to treat. This is now called Bipolar II. So, yes, I've likely been BPII, there just was not a diagnostic category for it then on the BP spectrum.


WC