Just be diagnosed.

I'm 34 years old and just been diagnosed with bi polar type 2.

I have always had issues and looking back the warning signs were there for years I just ignored them.
Since high school I had been ignoring the fact that something was very wrong. I never really made friends, found it hard to get motivated all the classic signs. I just ignored them and struggled on.
I felt that I could talk to my family as they are the kind of 'get over it everyone gets sad' I later found out my mother had post natal depression and my father told her that it wasn't a real illness and to get over it.
Digging further I have found that mental illness runs in both sides of the family and numerous relatives have killed themselves after major bouts of depression.
Around Christmas time last year I found my self in a major depression. I was so depressed I could function. I was angry irritable and I was in a hole of blackness. I had been taking anti depressants and I was seeing a physiologist for anxiety . I finally admitted I need more help and talk to my GP. I got a referral to a physiatrist and I was diagnosed.
It's been 6 months now and will we are still tweaking my meds I'm am feeling a lot better.