Which do you prefer, manic or depressed and why? I'm going to say that as much as I hate it... I rather go through a depression because when I'm manic I tend to make major life decisions that I very much regret when I come down or years later. Like when I was 18 and stayed up for days just sitting in my room "doing stuff". I came up with the great idea of going to cosmetology school. Now in my defense I've been doing hair since I was 14 but even though it was fitting, it took me forever to finish and I didn't even end up taking the state exam and never touched hair again. $9,000 of my own money blown! And sad thing is I did it again with medical assistance school. I kept up with that and got a few jobs at Drs offices but now I still owe my student loans and again, I skipped on the state exam lol. I'm a flake. And there's those many other times I've made questionable decisions when hypo/manic and woke up feeling like the biggest idiot the next day. But at least with depression I don't even get out of bed enough to get in trouble!