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I don't think rapid cycling counts as a mixed episodes. I think they are times when you have both symptoms of mania and symptoms of depression. Like on time where a could not sit down because I had so much energy, I couldn't concentrate to do anything, and I had thoughts racing through my head at the speed of light. Except the thoughts were of a negative nature, reflecting the fact that I felt worthless and unlovable. I was very depressed, suicidal, and yet I had many symptoms of mania (or hypomania.)
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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