My swings- both up and down- can be completely unrelated to anything in my life or environment but anger is a bad-mania trigger. (I have what I think of as good-mania and bad-mania. For example: cleaning the house top to bottom, getting 3 ch. ahead on homewk and using the inability to sleep anyway to make love to my husband- thats "good mania." Screaming at the kids bc they dropped something on accident, breaking things bc something unrelated was minorly frustrating or trying to get someone fired bc they made me a little mad at wk- "BAD mania.") If someone makes me mad I may have a fit of bad-mania that lasts days when I am over the initial anger after an hour or two.