It can almost be like playing "find the mania" sometimes. Manic episodes or hypo-manic episodes can be so mild sometimes it is hard to see. I mean if you feel great, have a ton of energy, don't need to sleep a lot, and are really productive how can that be a bad thing. Right?

You might want to see if any thing else fits. That was how I ended up finding out. I mentioned that I felt like everyone was judging me to my doctor and that was the start. Then I started to really think about those times that I only needed a few hours sleep, I normally can't function well on less than 9 hours a night, and how I became ultra-productive.

A big thing I notice when I'm hypo-manic is the crash. I noticed that when I was feeling so great that things started to slide down. I became agitated and pissy then I would plummet into deep depression.

I would suggest keeping a log of how you feel and see if there is a pattern.

Also, antidepressants don't always work for bipolar people. In fact they can send some bipolar people into a manic episode. I was on a ton of antidepressants and they never quite did it. My doc told me that bipolar depression is different than depression. The brain acts a little differently with bipolar than with depression or something of the sort. Getting on a bipolar medication instead of an antidepressant really helped me. I was always much more depressed than manic.