For some background, I’m 14M. Up until the quarantine, I was fairly normal, I suffered from some social anxiety but nothing serious enough for me to even need medication. Once the quarantine started, my mom became extremely agoraphobic and wouldn’t let anyone leave the house for about 2 years. Ages 12.5-14 for me were spent completely isolated and away from my friends. Unbeknownst to me or my family this is when I had my first manic and depressive episodes.

Once my mom went to a shrink and got her agoraphobia sorted, she started to let the rest of our family go out. Pretty much everyone was relieved. There was one problem though , apparently at one point during the quarantine I developed agoraphobia myself and I couldn’t go outside without having panic attacks. I was rushed to the ER multiple times and on certain occasions had back to back panic attacks that lasted over an hour.

I went to a shrink and got prescribed Zoloft, and as most of you probably know Zoloft and bipolar don’t go well together. Long story short I got diagnose with bipolar about 2 months later.

This is basically a vent post as well as an advice post, specifically asking advice from people who’ve been diagnosed from a young age.


TLDR: I’m a 14 year old who got diagnosed with bipolar and is unsure how I’m gonna live the rest of my life I both needed to vent and wanted to ask for some personal experiences, preferably success stories, of people who have been in my shoes