hmmmm thanks for the responses, this is helpful. Bipolar is sort of a possible diagnosis for me right now and I've just never noticed a strong pattern of going up and then down, which I know is fairly typical in BP. Usually I feel extra awesome and amazing after my depressions lift and I can never really tell if it's just me being excited about not being depressed or if it's something more significant. Or feeling really great in the spring after a winter depression, I have no idea what the "normal" range of mood shift in that situation would be. But at least I know that hypomania after depression can be a normal variation!