Age of onset of symptoms?

I've read that the average onset is very early and from reading the I posts I can see. I'm a very unique s or me situation was. I had a hysterectomy (age 36, 2012) and began very depressed after. I cried all the time so I was put on a low dose of Celexa. Then I was not better so it was increased. Afterward I started swing into being angry or crying. I was changed to Cybala but it was too strong and made me sleep all day. I was put back on Celexa (60MG) and sent to a therapist. I was diagnosed with Adjust disorder (D.O.) and therapist agreed. I began getting worse I madder than ever all my depression was gone. I was a ball of fire. I went for a second opinion and found out I was misdiagnosed AND Celexa puts people with bipolar 1 into mania. This On August 01, 2012 I was correctly diagnosed, taken off the wrong medication and put on the correct medication. My first major episode was in early June 2013. I had a very bad mixed episode, was homicidical and had to be hospitalized. The next month the exact same thing happened. I've also suffered psychosis and it was something I would not wish on anyone. Being filled with rage and having the instinct to be homicidal is scary.
Age of onset : 36

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I had off and on depression from the time I was a 6th grader. Always felt different from my peers. A lot of anxiety and shyness. Although the summer after HS graduation was party time, was hypersexual. Got married at 23, settled down ok. Minor depressions I never knew were treatable. Perked up every spring. My crazy year came when I was 43, two manias and two depressions. I almost lost my family and my self. That was the year I was diagnosed. Been wrestling with this beast ever since!

I am an oddball in that for real, it first happened when I was 42. I was taking Elavil for sleep, which is an AD, and it flipped me into an elevated mood state and several days in a row with no sleep even for a second.

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I'm 31 now and diagnosed bipolar disorder and panic disorder. I didn't think anything was wrong w me as a kid but my teachers family all thought ADHD and had me taken to a specialist when I was 12. Dr didn't know what to make of me just said yes something is off let's put him on riddlin. Parents said no and I powered through. At this point it seemed very very manic behavior. Then mid high school came the depression and anxiety. I didn't want to do anything that I used to love. Just isolated. So it mixed back and forth. Coming from an Irish catholic family I was told you're fine you need to relax yourself. Around 20/21 I became so anxious and depressed I wouldn't leave the house for long periods of time and them when I was manic I was just so high and racing. In one of my manic states I became obsessed w this idea birds that made a nest on the side of the house were spreading mites and other bugs inside. So in the middle of the night I grabbed two cans of raid sprayed my entire room down and blacked out from the fumes. Woke up went outside in just gym shorts. Got the ladder by breaking the lock w bolt cutters and climbed the house w the garden hose to wash everything from the birds. I slipped off the ladder sprained my ankle and my parents saw me fall. Then realized oh **** maybe this isnt "nerves" my mom gave me some Valium and got diagnosis at 22. Looking back I did all kinds of dangerous impulsive stuff growing up bc I thought it was funny or I was in sheer panic. I isolated and slept a lot. Up and down. Severe onset started around 20/21 but it slowly built up from childhood before it grabbed hold.

Also most the same shxt that happen to me. I was taking Celexa.

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Looking back, I definitely was depressed often as a child. The bipolar didn't hit me until 21. When it started it hit me like a semitruck. I'm 26 now and officially got help at 24.

I had no symptoms at all until the age of 43, then anxiety attack, no sleep for 4 days, then hospital with mania. I still believe I only need meds as required for anxiety, and thats not very often.