I agree with trippin. We are overly sensitive to situations. If we are at a get together with friends and things get loud and exciting we can become hyopmanic and get all full of energy and cant stop talking, I talk over everyone and interrupt a lot when I get this way. Just over a simple conversation that gets a little exciting can do this to me and it takes me a long time to wind down so I probably wont sleep that night until the wee ours of the morning. On the other end of it if something bad happens I can become extremely depressed. On the couch and cant move, absolutely no energy or interest for days or weeks or months. This can happen after being manic too, I can have a couple of months where I am hypomanic everyday and still sleep around 2-4 hours or so at night then all of a sudden a depression will hit from out of the blue and I will be on the couch lifeless for a long time. My BP is pretty predictable for the most part now. I believe I go along with the seasons. If its nice and bright and sunny my BP is on the high range and I run normal to hypo daily but as soon as fall hits or we have some gloomy days in a row I will come down quite a bit. The sunshine really effects me, with or without medication.