I am type 2 and I have a son who is type 1. The severity is day and night. He has filled journals with gibberish. I had to take him to the emergency room one night because he took a handful of pills. Not suicidal, just meaning to take a couple but when a bunch came out into his hand when he was just trying to shake a couple out and he just took them. Fortunately he had enough presence of mind to come wake me up and tell me. When I am hypomanic, I stay up past midnight the toss and turn trying to sleep but do get some rest; he stays up all night. He has been hospitalized and they kept him about 3 weeks. I have never been hospitalized. My pdoc scheduled me twice a week when I was having obvious lingering hypomania, but there was no mention of in patient.