I wish my cycling were at all predictable.

I have two REALLY bad episodes a year, one in spring for about two months and one in the fall for about two and a half months.

The one in the fall is solid depression.

The one in the spring is what I call and "explosion" - rapid cycling, often ultradian rapid cycling with multiple cycles a day, between mood states. Severe agitation for three hours and unable to stop moving and stop my thoughts, three hours of feeling like a normal person, three hours of severe depression and not leaving the couch and not eating, then back to being only mildly disabled.... Or sometimes during my explosion I have four severely bad days, then two okay days.... It's completely unpredictable.

Aside from those two huge episodes, last summer I was having episodes lasting four days or seven days or two days or fourteen days - totally unpredictable AGAIN. (Noticing a trend?)

Now I'm on lamictal and it seems to really be helping with mood stabilizing. My seroquel is amazingly helpful in reducing the agitation of my hypomanic symptoms. (My hypomania rarely has euphoric mood and is instead usually panic and agitation.)

We'll see how this summer goes.