1988: a male child is born.

1997: parents divorced

1998-2000: father remarried and his wife abused the child; boy was medicated for ADHD and ODD. Then sent to a special school for behavior

2000: father committed suicide because of a combination of known life issues

2001-2003: child went from school to school; diagnosed as bipolar 1

2004-2006: child almost a man was rebellious and reckless in a foster home.

2006: child turns 18 and heads to live on his own and falls into the wrong crowd

2007-2008: man goes though state of partying, smoking weed and drinking. Completely unstable way if life.

2009: man shapes up and goes to college

2009-2015: college years; fails out in senior year

2015-2018: man struggles to make a living while seeing a new pdoc. New pdoc doesn't believe the man to be bipolar. He believes the man to be OCD, GAD, and angry. The man cannot describe extreme highs and lows. Just massive amounts of anxiety, obsessive mostly and irritability. Depression only when the anxiety breaks the brain.

2019-2020: man see no pdoc, man takes lamictal and Zoloft. Man predominantly still only suffers from anxiety and anger issues.


**** Bipolar diagnoses can be wrong when you're a child. Especially if the ones diagnosing you don't know you were abused... Mental illnesses can over lap and look like other things. The story of your life can make all the difference.