Not everyone has a crash.

I used to get crashes every single time. However, since starting my recent med cocktail, I just get manic/hypomanic and never crash into a depression or a mixed state. I have no idea how my meds stop my depression/mixed states, but they do. This is a very, VERY new thing for me. So I really do think it's med dependent -- although, I think some people naturally do not crash very often. (Crashes are not required for a BP diagnosis, btw.)

I also regularly get hallucinations and delusions, so in all fairness, it can be difficult for me to determine if I'm in an episode or not. (I have NO idea why I am not Dx'ed with Schizoaffective, but psychologists insist that the hallucinations are ONLY caused by the BP.) I also don't have many sleep issues when manic/hypomanic. I do wake up quite often in the middle of the night when in an upswing and I tend to do things for about a half an hour to a few hours before returning to sleep. However, I ultimately get like 6-7 hrs of sleep. (Maybe it has to do with med sedation? No idea. I do normally get like 10+ hrs of sleep when stable.) I also do shopping sprees and develop an extreme obsession with one or more things. Then I have racing thoughts and difficult-to-understand speech, according to my therapist. (Extremely fast talking, word salad, and changing from topic to topic every minute to a few minutes, where the topics have nothing to do with each other.)