I figured this would be the most appropriate place to post this :). All in the title, if you’re interested in a student’s perspective, please feel free to ask :). About to graduate from professional school hopefully :). Best wishes
I am posting this just to say that there can be light and hope at the end of the tunnel 
Can you tell us about how you did in HS, how you chose a college, what happened during college, and how did you over come it to where you are now?
I forgot to mention I am from Europe, but I figured the theme still applied, and this forum has helped me a lot in feeling less alone
I was always 1st in my school from my first year of school until high school graduation. So there wasn’t much thinking really about where to go for higher education.
I started having issues my first year of higher education : kind of like depression mixed with ADHD, typical things, except no antidepressants worked, and eventually psychiatrists sort of gave up on me, kind of like a lost cause…
I still managed to enter veterinary school, and during my time there my symptoms worsened considerably, I took several medical leaves, and my doctors were advising me to give up because with my condition I would never make it.
During my last medical leave I went back to my hometown and was really lucky to be hospitalized in a great specialised unit, where I was diagnosed bipolar type II. Antidepressants actually worsen the symptoms, so we stopped them and I was put on the right treatment, and since then things have been going so much better, the doctors were extremely encouraging, and I am set to graduate in the spring with pretty good grades for this final portion?.
I don’t know if that answers your question ! 
I guess the take home message would be never give up, and be sure to have the right diagnosis !
(feel free to pm me if you don’t want to post here )
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I forgot to mention my parents and younger sib were not at all supportive, which made things considerably worse, although since the diagnosis my dad especially has come back into my life. But I understand in a way