What's a mixed episode? How would you recognize it? I had a really bad end to a bad week last week. I think what I ended with was a mixed episode, but I'm not sure and I get confused because I have a dx of ADD as well as bi-polar. I don't think I've ever been manic, but possibly hypomanic (I think that's what it's called). I'm usually battling depression and this was not quite depression. It was like being tortured.