I agree with Guiness: I can be content when not in an episode. Happy? Not really, or if so, it's pretty fleeting. I don't know if it's the meds. I feel like my baseline used to be more up. But I do think it's theoretically possible to be happy between episodes, I really do. I suppose it depends on one's baseline, on your personality to begin with: are you optimistic by character, pessimistic? Do you have high (or decent) self esteem, or low self esteem?, etc.