DSM states that for a mood episode to be an episode it's gotta be "most of the day nearly every day"
which makes me believe the mood state is not always all day every day.
Do you have hours/days during your episodes where things are calm? What about having the opposite mood (eg feeling manic during a depressive episode)?

I thought my mixed episode was crashing to depression because things settled for a couple days but now I'm feeling very amped in a very negative way again