Hi I’ve been experiencing depression since age 11 and over the two past years I’ve been experiencing less depression and more what I believe are hypo/manic manic episodes.

During these episodes I don’t sleep as much as I normally do and I start lots of projects around the house, sign myself up for lots of stuff like volunteering/online lessons and start planning what I’m going to do for a year.

Also, I would do things that I wouldn’t normally do like engaging in sexual activities with lots of partners.

I don’t know whether to tell my psychiatrist or therapist about it because it’s really embarrassing and because I’m 17(legal consent age in most of Europe) and I feel like I’m not sick enough to get treatment because I’ve never been hospitalised for my “manic episode”.

Any advice?