Hi,
Personally I have never got over my hypomanic and manic episodes without a tweak to my meds. In fact I get worse pretty quick. It’s not a permanent increase in meds and once I’m back to ‘normal’ my meds get dropped back to normal.
The longest I’ve been up was 5 months. That was a few years ago and the low that followed was so bad that I don’t want to do that again.
I find it hard to keep myself in check because the longest I’ve been stable between episodes was 7 weeks.