I was diagnosed bipolar by a previous psychiatrist over 5 years ago and took different mood stabilizers and atypicals to treat it. I felt that the mood stabilizers helped. a lot. But my new pdoc doesn't think I have bipolar 2 at all. She thinks what the previous doc labeled hypo mania was actually a stress response and was an ocd flare up. When I would deal with intense, intense anxiety, often I would suddenly "flip" and would feel not depressed and clean all night and not sleep for a week at a time. The thing is, I did feel kind of euphoric but never irritable or irrational in any way. I would have worse ocd in these periods and would clean,clean,clean. But I didn't experience euphoria in the sense many others with bipolar did. It was euphoria at looking at a clean bathtub, or reorganized drawer, which I get when I don't have these episodes. There's also an element of dissociation to these episodes. I'm kind of out of it. These episodes are always induced by major stress. Anyone have any thoughts? It seems like hypo-mania to me but also doesn't.