This might be a dumb question, but I have never known anyone that suffers from Bipolar disorder. There are little signs that I can tell that the mania is coming. I play the piano and my mind and fingers are not in sync with each other. I use to have a photographic memory, which I don't have anymore due to the meds or maybe the disease itself, but I do have a fairly good memory. When the mania starts to come I start to forget phone extensions at work? However, when I go into a depressed phase which only lasts a few days there are no signs, I just wake up and I am depressed.

Does anyone see the mania or depression coming through different signs that you pick up on or does it just happen?