Hey, my first episode was at 23, now I'm 37, and I'm doing treatment since I was 30, we are following teh same path, even if you have worse symptoms.
By the way, lately I am improving greatly with a medicine that was meant against bipolar disorder. My pdoc find this out after noting that my episodes were alternating at regular intervals (I had kept records ).

Now I'm always down, but moderately, and no painful crises. I'm kind of disthimic. Not good but way better. Talk about it with your doc.

The best of luck