I'm BP 1 but there is also a strong seasonal component to my mood shifts. I can almost set my calendar by them---depressed in late fall and late winter, mixed in early spring, manic in early summer, mildly depressed or mixed in late summer, manic in early fall. All with normal periods in between. My pdoc's been keeping me on two APs for the past six months because I had a nasty mixed episode during the spring, and then summer arrived which is when I tend to go totally ape ****. Didn't happen this year though.....in fact, in June I went in the opposite direction and experienced suicidal ideation. Then things were decent for a couple of months, and now I'm having my usual late-summer doldrums. Meh. It'll get better soon.....won't be long till my happy early fall time arrives.