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Hi pink,
I am a rapid cycler. Most of the time I am depressed and irritable. When I cycle into hypomania it is very short like 1-3 days and then it's right back to depression. Right now I am under more stress than usual because of life circumstance and I am also titrating up on Lamictal. Monday and yesterday I was really starting to have that hypomanic racy feeling and I took an extra half tab of Klonopin to calm down. That helped. I am hoping as the Lamictal goes higher it will control the hypomania. My hypomanic episodes only seem pleasant some of the time, other times it is energetic agitation as opposed to the depressed agitation I get when I am down.
When I was in my 20's the hypomanic episodes sometimes lasted weeks and months.
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Bipolar disorder with very long depressions and short hypomanic episodes. I initially love the hypomanic episodes until I realize they inevitably led to terrrible depressions. I take paroxetine, lamotrogine and klonopin.
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