I've decided to make a list of the symptoms i'm experiencing and then categorize them as either hypo mania or depression...:

Depression:

Anxiety/panic
isolating (not answering phone/door, not wanting to go anywhere)
tearfulness
Loss of interest in everything accept my obsession
thoughts of suicide
irritability
...i'll just say poor hygiene


these are the symptoms I'm experiencing in the hypo-mania category:

-Impulsive buying
-obsession with something new (this time it's ants last time it was fishing the time before that photography the time before that the Wii, before that drawing before that sewing, before that knitting....ect. etc. ) This obsession is really terrible i am in tears if something stops me, i panic until i get what i need..and i feel like i need to do something to do with the item, research whatever...at all times all of my waking hours. (if you remember my other post about my husband not picking up plaster and me flipping out on him...that's because i needed plaster to make an ant formicarium)
-Insomnia
- RAGE
- drinking/drugs (i never do this when i am depressed)
- racing thoughts
- The feeling that i cant get words out fast enough sometimes my chin quivers and i begin to shake with excess energy while I'm talking.
- short attention span can't concentrate.

I don't know what category to put thoughts/fantasizing about harming others.

Anyways I've never been mixed, so I'm kinda wondering in your mixed episodes did your symptoms match mine? I do plan to talk to my T about it but my appointments isn't until the 7th.