I'm a teacher too!

During my ups my students probably have a hard time keeping up with me - we'll end up with a bunch of different topics on the go and I'm likely to throw out a lesson on the whim to do whatever I just thought of. They tend to have a lot of fun during my ups.

In a depression they'll find that we do a lot more chill activities that are a bit quieter or peaceful, and low maintence for me.

They can usually point out to me when I'm in an up or a down though based on just little comments to me. Like at one point one of my students went "Ms, you haven't been singing or dancing around when the music is playing lately". Good observation from a 9 year old right? But it made me think, and I put in more effort over the next few days to do more high-energy activities with them even though I didn't really feel like I had that in me.