Hi. It does sound like you have some mixed features. I have some of that too. And cycle frequently. If I'm not particularly stable, I can have hypomanic, mild manic, and depressive symptoms all within a week. I've gotten to the point I can predict when it's coming on. And it sounds messed up but I look forward to the 'peak day' when I feel like I'm made of gold and my body has a different vibration. I can't think straight and within a day am thinking my phones probably tapped and the cia, might, be plotting against me, but some of that can be headed off with extra anti-psychotic PRNs and benzo PRNs. But anyway, if I could bottle and patent what that peak day feels like, I could be a millionaire. But I have learned that when I know I'm headed that way, I have to tell friends "in a couple days I'm totally going to stop meds and probably think they might be poison, so pretty much I need you to reality check me, until I say I'm taking them." I did that last time and only missed a couple doses, and had taken PRNs the couple days before so I didn't get as out of whack as I could have.

Anyhow, I did not get a borderline flair from your posts, at all. I know you mean by that, for awhile I kept telling the doctor I thought I might just be axis 2, therefore didn't need meds. He told me, at least 5 times lol, that 'everyone has a little bit of axis2, but I don't see that as being part of what's going on". Then another time he read the dsm to me, in full, on BP2. "If that's not you I really must have missed something, and please tell me".

I'm not really in the most stable place right now, I think it's a seasonal./time change induced thing, but I'm relatively functional compared to some other times in the last year and half. I take a mood stabilizer and antipsychotic (though I'm trying to get off that). I think that is the standard treatment and in general gets good results. Keep working with MD to find the right mix.

And keep talking to other people