Well, it sounds like your family is concerned, meaning you should get checked out. Even if to prove them wrong, or to determine if maybe it’s just hypomania.

I think looking at symptoms from the usual perspective might not work.

Do you feel like your “old” self, or was that person just held down by everyone?

Look at your old emails. Do you agree with them and the way they’re written?

How is music sounding to you?

Does everyone seem like ignorant snails (or the like) to you?

Do the clothes you bought look like your typical wardrobe?

I can tell you I didn’t notice my last hypomanic event until I swung down. I just felt like the items I wrote above. It all made sense to me at the time.

The one thing I noticed was that I could control the speed of my brain with music. I thought, hmm, I could do that before when I was hypomanic. Not that I did anything about it.