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Sep 12, 2013, 08:26 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
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How you describe this, the progression, makes *a lot* of sense to me. I don't think any mood-episode is "pure" -if it were that simple, it would be easier to label things, as you're struggling with right now.
I don't even think it has to necessarily be considered 'mixed' just because there is more than one emotions involved, I think this can just be the natural progression of an episode, through different stages.
I do usually experience what I guess I'd call 'hypomania' before going into full-blown mania. It *is* a progression and has its stages (which will be different for everyone).
I think maybe one of several distinctions between I and II is that very progression. Perhaps with II, the 'progression' stops at some point, it doesn't get to the point of psychosis, for example. Whereas, in your case, it will continue to progress, over a long period of time, through different stages, including the stages of coming 'down' again, also involving different stages.
Maybe if you can try to see some consistency in what seems like chaos (or maybe is a kind of chaos). It sounds quite persistent to me, in a way. I don't know how to describe what you're describing myself, except that it just sounds and feels like "one" episode that goes through different stages, including that of full-blown mania. Maybe if you continue to write down what you experience, it will start to make more sense to you. If you're 'well' at the moment, it's a great time to be doing this. It may be helpful, may give you some sense of what to expect in the future. 
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