I believe it was bullying in elementary school that began my depression. The hypomania started in Junior High School, in grade 8.
Dad always quoted a nursery rhyme to me when I was small, so I might have been born bipolar. He quoted, "There was a little girl who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good she was very very good, and when she was bad she was horrid". Sounds bipolar to me. At the time, I had no idea why he kept saying that. I had no curls. I didn't know I had hypomania.
My grandfather and my aunt were bipolar, so he knew the signs.