Faerie moon I'm fairly sure I've only really experienced dysphoric hypomania also, I may have been euphoric hypomanic but if I was my insight was impaired enough that I didn't recognise it. I could go back over everything in my past keeping in mind the symptoms of hypomania but I feel like I'm just making excuses for silly behaviour in the past, usually substance induced.

The whole bipolar spectrum is new to me, I swear when I was training to be a nurse some 7 years ago there was no such thing as bipolar 2? At least it wasn't taught at university. So I'm finding it very hard to accept the label & all of the variations in symptom expression. I do feel like it's more than just depression though.

What do your mixed states & dysphoric hypomania feel like Faerie moon?

Trippin 2.0 I know them feels, when I walked out of my first psychiatric appointment with lithium & seroquel I was in shock. It explained a lot but also raised many any more questions. The taboo of mental illness is still very widespread within healthcare & being a nurse with a potentially psychotic illness is looked upon fairly harshly in my experience.