Although I was only diagnosed in October last year, I've come to realise that I'm Hypomanic a lot of the time. I've asked a lot of my friends and family to identify where they would put me on the mood scale, and they pretty much all said I'm a 7-8 most of the time. At the time I was unaware I had Bipolar but I believe the episodes lasted a month or two at a time.
The depressive periods have lessened over the last couple of years, but I had a 5 day period a week ago where I was very down, and that has started again today. I have an appointment with the Psychiatrist on Thursday so hoping to be able to chat things through (first time speaking to psych since diagnosis 7 months ago!!).