When I was first diagnosed a year and a half ago, I was so astonished and bewildered at having this 'label' that I didn't know whether to say anything about it or not, especially at work. The trouble is, my lovely, productive, fun hypomania tends to turn on me and become a completely irrational, irritable mania, and it wasn't too long after I was dx'd that I couldn't hide it anymore. Eventually I lost my job because of it, and I've spent the last two months healing from that and am finally ready to go back to work, albeit in a different capacity.

Thankfully, my pdoc and I have at last hit on the right combination of meds, so I'm pretty confident that I'll do all right in the new job. I still have more learning to do as to what's a healthy energy level versus what's hypomania, though.