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But hell, I can be in the middle of a hypomania and STILL have a day where I'm lonely and sad and miserable. But it won't last all that long and I'll be able to distract myself from it easily. Just like when I'm in a depression - I can in fact still go out and have a chance at successfull having a good night - if the depression isn't too severe and I'm not feeling too stressed out about the situation, I might even relax and enjoy myself a bit. Which is great. Problem is, is that if I'm in a depression then as soon as I'm out of that temporary good mood, back comes the crushing sadness. Because that crushing sadness wasn't gone, I just managed to override it for a while. (I realy, really, enjoy those reprieves the odd time I get them!)
I think this illustrates a good point -what can happen at times. I think in the case of full-blown mania and can't-get-out-of-bed-severe-depression this may well not apply; but maybe in the case of Bipolar II, which many people have, these 'moods within moods' (or emotions within moods) often happen (and can happen at baseline as well, at the end of the day).
I think sometimes people are quick to label what you describe as either Mixed or Ultra Rapid Cycling, when in some cases, it may be what you describe: a mood being pervasive, but issues or thinking in day to day life (whether positive or negative) triggering temporarily change in how we feel, without it having to be labeled as a shift into an entirely different 'mood-state-, or mixed or whatever.
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