The last time I had an episode (lack of sleep and hallucinations, I think hypomania or mania, not sure, but increasing Abilify took care of it before I had to be hospitalized) was about a year ago. Before then, it had been some 3 years and at that time I was hypomanic drifting into depression afterwards, mostly feeling down and worthless because of what I had done while hypomanic and just having gone through that mood state in and of itself, if that makes sense. My meds were not entirely effective at the time, and I had, I think, one manic episode and 2 hypomanic episodes that year. I tend to get depressed after hypo/manic episodes go away.

I'm not sure if this is the kind of answer you're looking for, but it's the best way I can think to describe it.