How do I know?


Well happiness isn't disordered for one, it just is, and it is without consequence.


Two, just plain happy doesn't bring along friends like the long list of symptoms (hypo)mania does.


It's easy to pathologize our every emotion once we get slapped with this dx. I think everyone has fallen into that trap at one point or another on this journey.


Me? If its not negatively impacting my life, it gets no psych label, simple.


But that's just me, I prefer to simplify and give BP as little credit and power as possible.