Hypomania is when I get chatty, feel like I could jog to Texas and back, am super productive around the house, colors become more vivid, shopping becomes an issue, and I have big plans that I can't understand why everyone else is not as enthusiastic as I am.

Mania is an entirely different animal. I become hostile and post angry political screeds on Facebook and argue my point of view endlessly and I get paranoid, thinking the neighbors are spying on me. Sometimes I even have religious delusions, believing I've been chosen by God to do something spectacular for humankind. I am agitated and can't stop pacing. Thoughts race so fast that they're incoherent and my speech is very rapid and tangential. It's not pretty.