Hey Franz, I had that happen about 10 days ago, popped up huge overnight and just as you said, the world became a magical wonderful place. In hindsight I wasn't sleeping enough in the days prior (weeks and months to be honest) but did catch me off guard. Swore it wouldn't happen and nothing was wrong with it, but have since crashed and very depressed now. Have felt better some in the evenings some nights but daytime has sucked. Sleeping way too much, little energy, sex drive shut off (not a bad thing, had gotten out of hand), can't seem to cook or clean and those things had been going great. Am now kinda concerned this is the 'coming down' from the past few months and mostly was elevated during those months. Thought I had insulated myself enough with exercise daily and some other behavioral stuff but I guess not. For what it's worth, the pop up happened one or two days after a huge temperature spike that followed a huge 'polar vortex' for a few days. Was like a 70 degree shift in one day. I dunno. In general if I've gotten fully manic, it's always gradual but in this case and many times before, I had a big overnight shift into hypo though in hindsight was pretty high on the hypo scale. I actually slept well that night but when I woke up was enlightened, energy coming out of my hands, etc. Such a wonderful feeling. Totally gone now almost as if that energy stuff I felt was actually energy leaving my body and that makes sense now. Taking care of myself best can managed a shower and ate a few times small meal but also had a zonked out nap for a couple hours earlier and I think I slept about 5 seperate times yesterday. It will get better or at least can accept it for what it is and take care of self.

In the past, what do you do to manage things when this happens, and so forth. Do you tend to level back out, or go into depression? No two instances are the same but just wondered.

I'm going to see how next few days go and if still way down, probably reduce lamictal some temporarily, my brain isn't working quite right at moment but pretty sure I've done that before and it did help ease things back into homeostasis. At moment I'm heading back to couch bc shower exhausted me lol. But it did feel good.

Take care of yourself.