I loooves me some hypomania! I don't love my mania though---that's when I've got all this extra energy AND I'm angry, hostile, and don't have a filter. Those were some rough times when my kids were growing up and I'd scream at them for three hours for any infraction of the house rules or just because I'd had a lousy day at work and needed to blow off steam. My poor hubby came in for a lot of verbal abuse as well.

Yet I never thought there was anything wrong with me other than plain depression. I didn't think I had anything else but simple depression. It never occurred to me that the bright, happy, busy times and the rages were part of my then-undiagnosed bipolar disorder. So yes, I do struggle with hypo/mania even though I haven't had a full-blown episode in a couple of years. I also loathe depression and wish I didn't have it, but I don't do crazy things or spend myself into another bankruptcy.