Hunh. This is interesting. Thinking of agitation as a mixed episode, that is. (a few others have mentioned this, I just plucked yours for being close at hand, Tsunami ) I've never felt that what mommyof2girls described as a mixed episode. Two reasons. First, that she says she's not feeling hypo or manic. If no mood state is present, let alone 2, I just don't see how it could be, simply by definition. Second, if a mood state were going on, this is how I would see it:
As hypomania taking an irritable form. Definitely not saying all agitation is hypomania, because it isn't, just that sometimes this is a feature. Being a negative feature doesn't make it depression.

I want to be totally clear on something that might be misconstrued here: I am not saying anyone who mentioned mixed isn't having them. Just that I don't see what is described as a mixed episode.

I have had mixed episodes. Not a ton, TG. But they were soooo different from what is described here, that I just don't get it. It wasn't just being ragingly irritable and agitated (mentally +/or physically). It was both extremes happening simultaneously. (Which is why people talking about swinging from one to the other in succession and calling it mixed perplexes me too, but that is not the topic here.) It was hell far beyond and markedly different from simply aggitation. And I don't mean simply as "mild", but to denote that it's pretty straightforward, no matter how intense and horrible it is. And holy canoli has it ever been!

It's been awhile since this thread started. How are you doing on the aggitation front, mommyof2girls? (I know you've had some other stuff going on recently, and on that, just wondering if you had an update on this.)