My hypomania usually lasts for a day or a few, then subsides. Exception being summer of '09 when I went into a manic period for 9 weeks and this fall, where I'm having a mixed episode (reminiscent of fall of '02) ever since returning from LA around September 5th. I'm depressed, but accomplishing a lot. Superficially functioning, but I feel dead inside and almost at the end of my rope.