[Gabyunbound]

Do you guys tend to go from hypo/manias to depression, depression alone, depression that ends up in hypo/mania's or how does it work for you?

I usually go from hypo/mania's to depression, but this time it is starting with depression. I was agitated and irritable for a couple of weeks a month or so ago, but my sleep was fine, so I think it was just...me, or anxiety, or whatever, what do I know...

So how does it work for you, or is it sometimes the one or the other, depending?

Depression for me is usually after a trigger of my PTSD. It doesn't go into mania for me, but it takes a lot to refocus and put things in balance. (((hugs)))

[Travelinglady]

I tend to rapid cycle from mania to depression.

[st0psign]

mania --> depression

[Row Jimmy]

My cycle seems to be baseline, manic, short depression, baseline.

[Coconutzo]

I feel like I go depressed>manic>crash depression(short lived)>manic>baseline

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[cashart10]

For the last 3 1/2 years it's been one giant blur. I couldn't begin to find any rhyme or reason to my cycles or my symptoms.

I don't pay close enough attention (like I should) but this seems to be my pattern........

I don't always go into depression after a manic episode but usually I do. I go from stable, to manic, then I get situational depression from the things I did while manic or just from being worn out from it all. The situational depression goes chronic and clinical. Wash, rinse, repeat.

[Dontspeak]

I have really not had a proper depression since Tegretol started in 2013. But plenty of anxiety, hypo-mania, mixed states. This happens in October, January, April-May.

But I fear the crash right now so I'm not taking the speed semester this summer even though I may regret it later. I need to get my non school life in order. I told my T if she saw my house she'd have me committed.

My pdoc says everyone goes mad in Spring.

[Icare dixit]

Mild depression due to understimulation; mania due to finding or having created stimulation due to depression, but too much of it; depending on challenges short severe depression but may become mixed or, if I think I can continue, manic and then non-affective psychosis and a mixed state; severe, but atypical, depression due to overstimulation; mild depression or mixed state.

Unmedicated is pretty much continuously mixed with longer periods as just described. Same after a sudden rise in serotonin when medicated, as I discovered recently.

It's not continuous when medicated, but (some) others would say it is most of the time.