I get both kinds, which confuses the hell out of me. Sometimes I experience them both within days or a week of each other---I'll be bouncing around on a high for a while, all unicorns and rainbows and sunshine, and then I'm thrown into a dimension of pissed-off that I've never been before. There isn't even a break in between; one day I'm Cherry Ames, and a few days later I wake up as Nurse Ratched. No, worse, I'm that crazy nurse from the Stephen King movie "Misery", just waiting for the chance to whack somebody with a sledgehammer. Yikes!
So yeah, I feel for all y'all who suffer from dysphoric mania/hypomania. At least with me, I get to experience the fun part too, but it always winds up in the dumper sooner or later.
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