I am 15 months shy of 60. During med adjustments over the last few months, I was hypomanic a lot more than usual but that is probably an anomaly. My history has been far more depression than hypomania with most of my depression being moderate. In the last few years I have taken more deep dives into major depression than my norm of the two decades before. The silver lining (maybe) is that most of my recent hypomania has been euphoric, while it used to mostly be irritable. You have probably heard the joke about depression being anger without enthusiasm; irritable hypomania is anger with enthusiasm. It's almost as bad as depression.
EDIT TO ADD - I also found out there is a third type of hypomania I can have during the med adjustment - expansive hypomania. It could not have come at a better time. I was eager to bare my soul to my MH care team, Had I been in any of my more common states, that likely would not have happened. It was triggered by lamictal, which my primary started me on and told me to find a pdoc to better manage medications. By the time I was seen by my pdoc, I was an open book. It took about 6 weeks for me to adjust and come out of the hypomania (other meds were in the mix also).
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|Up and down
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|Pink Floyd - Us and Them
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|bipolar II, substance use disorder, ADD
|lamictal, straterra
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