When did you first notice bipolar? [Serious]

I knew something was wrong for a long time, but one day when I was having a serious conversation with my partner about my mental health, they mentioned something about how I would get manic and they mentioned bipolar disorder. Something just clicked and I was like "oh fuck". And it just made so much sense. I could recognise depression easily enough, but it would only last so long at a time, and then I would have these episodes that I didn't understand, i would feel great and confident and happy, but also so paranoid and I'd hallucinate and I'd have delusions but I'd have so much energy and motivation, but I'd never considered bipolar disorder before because I hate to say it, but stereotypes and stigma had formed my idea of what bipolar disorder was before then. I went to my doctor not long after and told them about my symptoms, and they told me it was an obvious case, and I got an emergency referral to the mental health services. But that's another story.

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