Wanting information about extreme meltdowns

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As a child, I had extreme episodes that I believe could be meltdowns, I have them mostly under control today but I still feel like doing what I used to. I am currently told the episodes were caused by childhood bipolar disorder, I do have adult bipolar disorder, but I personally think my bipolar started in adulthood. My local mental health is not interested in figuring out why I did this.

I basically am seeking information about these type of episodes and disorders that could cause them. I don't know if I am autistic but I think I might have enough characteristics for this to be the reason for my meltdowns and current obsessiveness.

My meltdowns were like this:

Set off by someone either making fun of me or something else that upset me, I would suddenly get this extreme wall of emotion hit me. Basically I would yell and scream and cry and hit and it would last a long time. This was bad enough I disrupted the school and happened almost everyday until I was a teenager. Nowadays I only get a little out of control.

This condition has ruined my life and I want to know what caused it for a sense of closure. Maybe it was a bipolar thing, maybe autistic, ADHD? My mental health team is not interested in helping me, who do I turn to? Especially since I have Medicaid, I can search on a website who in my area takes that insurance, I need to check but in the meantime what do you think about this?

That sound pretty eggstreme. What were some of the things that set you off? Were they usually things that the other kids didn't care about?

I don't know much about bipolar disorder, so I don't know if a child with bipolar disorder would behave similarly to an autistic child having a meltdown.

My meltdowns as a kid were usually set off by sensory problems like lights or objects being in the wrong place or my routine changing or someone disrupting my solitary activities.

I used to have meltdowns like that as a kid. I am not bipolar. I do have cyclothymia, tho. I belive that influenced my meltdowns. I think their are impulse control disorders that can cause that kind of meltdowns, but I am not an expert. But if you have bipolar now and had bipolar like outbursts as a kid then bipolar is the most likely explanation.

As a kid my meltdowns were very bad. Even as an adult they are pretty bad. As far as I know all I have is HFA (officially diagnosed as a young child), and possible OCD on top of that - still trying to figure out if that is separate or if the traits come from my autism.

As a kid I did things like literally chase my sister with a knife, threaten to kill her in her sleep, and all sorts of stuff.

They started the same way for me - something sets off a massive unstoppable wave of anger and logic/thinking about my actions goes away.