My pdoc firmly believes I have BP1. And I asked at an emergency appointment last week, why I can go for years w/ no problems, and then all of sudden all hell breaks loose. He explain my type of BP like an earth quake. "For years, the fault line can me nice and quiet, and than bam, a massive quake, and now you are feeling the after shocks." Little short term episodes of mania where I am almost completely out of control w/ no external stressors. And that makes sense to me, b/c before this last episode that started in October, I went almost 5 years w/o any mania.