Can someone tell me (in a non-textbook description) what it really feels like to be experiencing a mixed state? My doc says he thinks I'm between hypomania and depression and that my irritability indicates a mixed state. He read me the description but I didn't see the connection. I have bad insomnia like I do when I'm hypomanic, but not the usual great mood and flood of brilliant ideas - just wide awake and moody. What is this? Is a crash imminent? I don't take any meds right now except sleeping pills which I'm taking regularly but are having no effect whatsoever.