Mixed is what is sounds like, you're high and low, but it's not rapid-cycling either. I do have periods of complete depression and usually short-lived periods of full mania (because of medical intervention), but mostly I'm up and down a lot on a given day or even both at the same time, as weird as that seems. I can be feeling good that I accomplished a task and still thinking I'm worthless. I get crying spells; I get hypo. Usually I'm on to a new feeling by the end of the day but sometimes not. I have a lot of forgetfulness, irritability, feeling I've already told people things, and they should understand me because of it. Start drifting off in my mind when other people talk more than a couple sentences and thinking about something else. Start cooking, think I need to put the laundry in the dryer and I must do it immediately then remember I need to text something to somebody then check my email, get lost in that, totally forget I am cooking. There is a very pressing urgency that once I think I need to do something, I must abandon the task at hand and do that thing immediately. I am not sure if that is a mixed feature or just me, but it is so inconvenient as it results in nothing getting all the way done. I'll hate my body one minute, and love it when I fit it some tiny size, then I'm all admiring myself in the mirror (maybe that's the ED, I think it's very likely the ED feeds on the mixed or the mixed feeds into the ED). One minute you're full of great ideas and things you want to do and maybe you start on it but at some point give up and feel like a failure. Sometimes, my spells will go a few weeks, or I'll be mostly one thing or the other though never completely. I have racing, jumpy, disconnected thoughts. I am OK one minute, and something little like my daughter refusing to go take her shower has me crying, sad, down, screaming, in tears for several hours, thinking I am worthless, a bad mom, why am I even here, etc. I'd go on but I'd write a book as I am prone to hypergraphia.