Unknown Speaker 0:02 You are stupid. You can't do anything right? You're so worthless. You'd be better off dead. everybody's life would be easier if you weren't in it. So why don't you just run away put a bullet in your head, because everybody else's lives would be so much easier if you did that. This series of behaviors and thought patterns that were so uncharacteristic of my true character, you know, they would happen for like two months, and then they wouldn't happen for another five months, and it would be like three months and wouldn't happen for six months on them. In this short burst, those were determined to be hypomanic episodes, hypo manic, which is the upswing, you know, and then depressive, which is the downswing and I was found to be experiencing those that kind of wave without a level. Unknown Speaker 0:55 This is Vanessa Unknown Speaker 0:59 and this is our story. Transcribed by https://otter.ai