Comicgeek, I was wondering exactly the same thing about myself last week. I've been in a bad depression, yet often my mind races (swirling thoughts) and I feel like "This time I can tell I'm really coming out of this depression," but realize the next day or so that I'm not. I called my pdoc on Friday saying I felt really agitated (while still depressed) and the only thing that had changed was increasing my wellbutrin, so he told me to decrease the wellbutrin. The next day I was still so freaked out by the situation that I took an extra klonopin to calm down too.

I had looked up mixed state and rapid cycling, etc. to see if I qualified and just wasn't sure. I finally came to the conclusion that I was having temporary periods of extreme anxiety with my depression, which, I don't think, qualifies as mixed? It is kind of scary to have moods and thoughts all over the place. I guess the best thing would be to describe your symptoms to your pdoc and see what he/she thinks.

Try to have a good day!