I'm definitely more energetic in the spring and early summer, with a tendency to become restless and irritable in the last half of the summer and then depressed in the winter.

This past winter though, I had the infamous mixed episode where I couldn't tell if I was down or up or what the hell I was. That's why I acquiesced to my internist's demand that I accept a psych referral, and wound up with the BP NOS diagnosis. Now that spring has definitely arrived and we've had a couple of 80+ degree days, I've got some get-up-and-go again, even though my moods are still somewhat variable (we continue to titrate up on the Lamictal, and my pdoc is considering weaning me off citalopram as soon as I'm completely out of depression).