After having been stable for a couple of years -now with a bout of depression that I think is starting to lift a little bit, who knows- I look back and believe that the hypomania's -BEFORE they would turn ugly- were not bad. At all. In fact, liberating, exciting, ahhh ecstasy!

If I could magically control them, say, take meds only when they start to turn ugly and stop them from turning into mania, I would do it in a heartbeat. I'd LOVE to not take meds except when 'necessary.' I wish it were that easy.

So well controlled hypomania (whatever that really is), not bad, mania -bad, because it comes with psychosis for me, bizarre and very scary thoughts, paranoia, etc.