{"id":5507,"date":"2012-03-26T13:07:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:17","slug":"when-does-adult-onbipolar-disorder-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/when-does-adult-onbipolar-disorder-start\/","title":{"rendered":"When Does Adult Onset Bipolar Disorder Start?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My bipolar disorder symptoms started with hypomania at 17. I didn\u2019t realize this until I sat down and really thought about my teenage years. This is actually a very common time to have a first mood swing. My ex partner had a lot of depression before he had his first major manic\/psychotic episode at 22. That was a terrible time for sure. When I think back of what he told me about college- he was definitely depressed for a long time. He told me he thought about suicide when he was a little kid. He didn\u2019t have an episode after that for a long time- then college at 19 and he got depressed and left school. So his first major depression was at age 19- but the minor stuff was already there. I didn’t have any depression until I was 19.<\/p>\n

If you have bipolar disorder, it\u2019s really interesting to write a paragraph about what you remember between the ages of 13-20. What was the first sign you had bipolar and how long did it take from that time for you to get diagnosed?<\/p>\n

If you have a child with bipolar disorder, what were their teenage years like?<\/p>\n

I had my first hypomania at 17 and was finally diagnosed at 31. Not cool. I wish I had been diagnosed sooner!<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n

PS: This is all about adult onset bipolar disorder. It’s different when a child is younger. They symptoms can be different and many health care professionals are more cautious with treatment.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>My bipolar disorder symptoms started with hypomania at 17. I didn\u2019t realize this until I sat down and really thought about my teenage years. This is actually a very common time to have a first mood swing. My ex partner had a lot of depression before he had his first major manic\/psychotic episode at 22. That was a terrible time for sure. When I think back of what he told me about college- he was definitely depressed for a long time. He told me he thought about suicide when he was a little kid. He didn\u2019t have an episode after that for a long time- then college at 19 and he got depressed and left school. So his first major depression was at age 19- but the minor stuff was already there. [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11578,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}