No this is not a mixed episode. I know what my mixed is and its certainly not this. I used "ultra rapid cycling" as the title as many do not know what ultradian cycling is, which is pretty much exactly what I am experiencing and I wanted to use terms that the people on this forum can understand.

This is definitely not a mixed episode because the majority of the time I am happy. My mixed are and have only every been both manic and depressed at the same time, not switching between the two. And I have cycled into a mixed state and back out over the last two days.

I am going from hypomania, to mixed, to depressed, to baseline in any order throughout the day. For example just 5 hours ago I was hypomanic and full bottle on my craft project. Suddenly I got and had to be sedated by the nurses. There was no trigger, all I was doing was my craft project and suddenly I was .

I am confident this will settle and level in a few weeks. My brain is mush at the moment with the heavy duty drugging they have been doing to me the last 3 weeks. My cycles are generally months, so switching rapidly is a very big change for me, but as said I am majority baseline/content so its not so bad to deal with. Being inpatient helps too as I have access to nurses and pdocs 24/7.

I am interested in if other people have these symptoms long term on antidepressants.