I first got treatment for a mental health related issue in Rwanda in September 2016, my last year of high school. I met with a psychiatrist but the treatment was more geared towards physical issues like blood flow to the brain. I got a fancy test where they plug stuff on your head and read electrical signals. The test said I was okay. This was what I later knew to be my first hypo mania episode that was preceded by a very long depressive episode. In the doctor's defense, he didn’t have most of the information that could lead to a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the beginning of 2018 when I was at MIT. Freshman summer, 2018, my mental health was all over the place. It got especially worse at almost the end of summer. It was the beginning of what would be a long depressive episode. I was taken to ICYIZERE center. This was one of my worst experiences with mental health professionals. I was in a bad shape, but the person I talked with didn’t eve...