My hypomanias only happen after a severe depressive episode, or when they are drug induced. The natural ones are just highly energized anxiety. Maybe I am happy for a day or two but then anxiety kicks in and I am miserable. It fizzles out after a couple of weeks.

My drug induced hypomanias are more stereotypical...but I don't find them pleasant in the least. I am super anxious, super high energy, always moving, I attack my poor husband the second we hit the bedroom at night (he likes that), and I become very open and honest...I am not rude (friends confirm this) but I seem like a different person in general. I still don't spend money. I am very tight with money, the most I have ever spent in hypomania is 80 bucks! For the whole episode! I am super distractible and talk a lot. I thought I was acting wacko while on Zoloft but my support group says they wouldn't have known anything was wrong if that was the first time they met me. They knew something was up because my normal is different.

I am at my most productive and happiest when I am euthymic...which I guess is good because then I have a motivation to take meds, do therapy,etc.