Anyone who would experience my full blown manias would not be missing them. Even the elated manias came at a price inevitably.

Elated mild hypomanias are perhaps a different story for me. If I could set my mood volume just a bit above "normal" for long periods, that would be grand. But even as that "volume" increases a bit, there are at minimum small prices to pay. If others haven't experienced such ramifications over time, then they had a lucky course, if depressions weren't that disabling. I know that there are even other people out there that have paid an even higher price for manias than me.