[Emster]

I was quite young, 15! How old were you or your loved ones when they finally got their diagnosis? Was it a long process?

Thanks in advance

[buzz bee]

I was around 35! I knew there was something wrong but never did something about it.

I'm not sure if I was too old or not young enough, but it is what it is.

[Flummixed]

36

[Secretum]

I was19, and a college freshman.

[ceramichornets]

18 or 19. Those years are a bit blurry to me. I wish I could've been diagnosed sooner, but my family is pretty much against mental illness and the treatment of it.

[Atypical_Disaster]

I was 22.

Originally Posted by Flummixed

36

Everyone is a little f-ed up. Some are just more f-ed up then others

That's pretty damn cool.

[Resident Bipolar]

Know to the services from 13. Diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder at 14. Diagnosed with Asperger's and Anxiety at 16. Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder at 18.

All my psychiatrists were very reluctant to diagnose anything that may affect me for my entire life, so even though they had their suspicions about a possible Bipolar or Borderline diagnoses, it wasn't officially diagnosed until I was 18. I was however on mood stabilisers and antipsychotics from 16 onwards.

[littlemiss44]

I was 34 and I'm 44 now. After I had my son they thought I had postpartum depression. But they were really wrong. I suffered for eight years on just ad's. It got out of control in 2004 and I was hospitalized.

Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk

[cherrykix]

Sorry, wrong post!

[Talanic]

I was 18 and was misdiagnosed with tons of stuff before then. From what I hear that and the age is pretty common.

[sdguy123]

23, just a few months ago.

[BipolaRNurse]

I was 53 when diagnosed, but had symptoms since I was a child. Misdiagnosed with depression for about a dozen years prior to being dx'd with bipolar.

[Curiosity77]

Diagnosed with bipolar at 29, but had symptoms since around age 10. I was misdiagnosed with major depression when i was 19 though.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[lil_better_everyday]

26 but shrugged it off and kept self medicating, didn't actually accept diagnosis until 29 or 30 (the last couple years are a big jumble in my head)

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk

[Emster]

Do you think your age when your were diagnosed has effected you treatment or acceptance of the illness?

18. I was accepting of the diagnosis as it was clear in my behaviour. Still working on treatment options 10 years on. Starting to realise this is a life long thing and it wont just go away.

[Fresia]

Diagnosed only as Major Depressive at age 7, all the other symptoms were ignored until age 3o, then diagnosed BP 2 into 2 decades now.

Emster:

Treatments have changed tremendously over the years for the better, I feel, especially knowing the history of where treatment options/limits have been in the past. They wii continue to improve as time goes on.

My acceptance was easy in that no one listened to me for so long; I knew the original diagnosis was only half the issue. So to have finally been heard and once we finally found meds and therapy that actually helped, it seemed a no brainer to me that it just confirmed what I knew all along but I just did not have a name for it; then again, it could have been called whatever, I just wanted the help for it.

[Capriciousness]

I was 28.

I was relieved and almost excited about the diagnosis but I also had a hard time completely accepting it. It was more like I felt like I didn't really "qualify" to be in the club because it seemed almost too good to be true that all this crazy stuff about me had a name and a tribe. Though there was a lot of identity stuff going on too like "you mean all of this amazing stuff about me is just a mental illness??!!" And then I had the hypomanic...I'm not ill I'm just SPECIAL mentality for awhile which ended in severe depression and led to me finally accepting the whole thing.