As I am newly diagnosed and on reflection I have had bad mania on 3 occasions. Hypomania is very new to me, maybe I have experienced it all my life without recognising it. I would have thought it was just me, now I questioned it. I have had bouts of depression but nothing like what I am experiencing now. I been going through a very long episode of first mania (ended in hospital) and now depression. This has been going on for 9 months.