I get it, too. Used to be that my depressions happened at least annually and went on for months, and my hypo/manic episodes were blissful but lasted only a week or two. I also had long periods of normal mood in between. Now it's almost the opposite; I have far more hypomania, full-blown mania and mixed states than depressive episodes, and my "stable" periods last only for a few weeks, maybe two months if I'm lucky.

I'm sure the main reason for all of this is the enormous amount of stress in my life during the past couple of years; it seems to have turned a mostly sub-threshold type of BP into a monster. My hope is that either the stress will resolve or I'll continue to develop better coping skills---or both---and the disorder will go back into its nifty little hiding place.