actually i just found a website that properly spelled it out.
I experience mania cause of the delusions and the hallucinations and the fact i genuinely believe stuff that isnt actually right.
Rather than just having an elevated mood.
It makes me think thought, when you have bipolar and you're actually just genuinely happy, how can you tell if thats hypomania or not.
Do any of you that have known you have had the illness for a while ever get to go through a period of time where you or other people arent constantly analysing your mood and naming it and explaining it?
I do it all the time since i found out.. Oh now, i'm normal, now i'm a 3 now i'm a 4, now i'm manic... i'm becoming OCD about my bipolar i think!