I had a mixed episode this winter after stopping my meds cold turkey. I had all the physical symptoms of mania but I was crying all the time and suicidal and extremely irritable. I couldn't sleep. drive or be around people. I was on home hospitalization in a hotel for several days because I couldn't be around people but my therapist agreed to not hospitalize me.

It was hell. Not like bipolar 2. I don't think. I am bipolar 1.