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Originally Posted by ultramar
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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Thanks Ultramar. It alwats seems like a progression to me. At least for myself and it is the same with depression it creeps. I don't kniw if there are any pure moods either.
Mixed I dunno, from what I experienced with that is that mania is playing the key role or depression is playing the key role. In what Indescribed I was manic the while time just a progression, so it makes sense to me to call it dysphoric mania rather than mixed. Or if it were depression at that stage than agitated depression makes sense to me. Just the mania or depression intensifying to that level. Or perhaps it's jyst tuely exhauated from the choas and distress by that point. Too bad crumbelling is not a real term for it. It is like when the cookie crumbles.. crumble pie... maybe I am just hungry.
Yes it's one episode the way I see it. I think I break up the stages as markers for myself. First..I am ok, second stage... not really ok, third stage... I am really not ok at all.
I was just more curious if anyone else follows this kind of pattern, and if the way I have always viewed it makes sense. Or if I was off in lalalnd thinking I ever experienced hypo at one stage. I think we are on the same page
I think that is it, one distinction between the two mania may just stop at the hypo stage for ll and for l it just keeps accelerating.
I have been well for a long time. I hope *knock on wood* to not expect to be in this cycle again ever or at least not for a long long time.
I pretty much know what to expect should I not be well. For years and years I pretty much followed the same pattern. Not that the severity didn't suprize me each time. You know you have been there before, but you can foget how bad it actually feels to be there.