Hello.
I would like to hear about your experiences - is it possible to be hypomanic and sleep nearly normally?

I have recently stopped taking my mood stabilizer because I felt depressed and tired all the time. I do have ADs and I still take them but not very regularly. Also I kind of started thinking that I am not bipolar at all.

Now I have times when I stay awake for two or three days straight, or with very little sleep (4h). Then after that I sleep for 10 hours. I know this isn´t a normal sleep pattern, but I don´t think I suffer from very much of sleep deprivation. But I do have some weird symptoms though. At times I´m very restless and just pace around in my apartment (it feels a bit like anxiety or something - like I should get out of my skin), I feel huge desire to be social and talk and I get frustrated if there is nobody to talk to, I have been cleaning in my house a lot recently, and the need to be social and stuff is just killing me. The only thing that calms me down is shopping. I´ve been shopping online and also I went shopping yesterday as a result of a "restlessness attack". I spent three times as much money as I was supposed to, but I think I do have some control left.

I don´t know what it is, but at times I am sure that I will become something great and I´m also very pissed by other people because they don´t realize my value and respect me enough. Maybe I´m just narcissist.

I guess I just want to know if it is possible to be hypomanic without very much of sleep deprivation, because right now I doubt my diagnosis. I think that I only have recurrent depression.