I am curious as to whether anyone has experienced or is currently experiencing the same issue as I am. Ever since my dx, I have noticed as well as remember throughout my lifetime, a particular pattern.

As the first day of summer nears, it will be the longest day of the year. I usually notice a big shift about a month before the first day of summer, and this year has been no different. My sleep becomes less efficient, as in terms of length of sleep. Like for the last. 2-3 weeks and especially the last week and a half, I can't sleep over 3 hours at a time. This lack of good sleep is creating migraines again, which have been almost non existant since beginning the medicine that I'm taking. Since my dx, this time of the year when my sleep is very disturbed has been the only time that migraines become an issue.

I've also noticed that I feel a little more agitated and irritable. Boredom and some short depressive states can be added into the recipe also. I must not forget about the lack of finances to go absolutely over the top and play catch up.....catch up with everyone else, and do all the luxorious activities of summer that I've never been able to do such as go on a fancy cruise, rent a house boat, travel the country in a rv from state park to state park checking out all the lovely places this country of USA has to offer, fly to Europe, take a wildlife cruise to Alaska, go to Las Vegas and let it rip, and go to the space station.

Whew. I will have to fight the desire to knock up a Brinks money truck, lol.

But seriously, where do ya'll think I'm at? Mania, hypo, depressed, or just shot out?

As the great Peter Frampton sang, Do You, Feel Like I Do?

[Anxiousvalkyrie]

Looking back I've noticed most of my manic spells tend to start at the beginning of spring. I feel similar changes like the ones you've explained.

[Lookn4mylife]

I can definitely relate. During the summer months, especially August, I'm usually having mixed episodes- lead by depression. In the fall and winter I'm full blown manic, paranoid, ruminating, and a couple of times I've had dissociative episodes - NOT multiple personalities. I guess what they say is true about seasons affecting mood.

[SirMoos]

I too, have a strong relation between my moods and the changing of seasons. Even when I'm well balanced the increasing sunlight causes my sleep to be destroyed. Last night was the first night in weeks that I slept through the night, but even then I was awake in bed for a long while.
My worst manic episodes have occurred in the summer with a shift into a severe mixed episode during the fall and early winter, but that was two years ago. This year has been extremely mild.

summer is worse for me too- more depression, more anxiety, more hospital visits.

i just hate it.. not just the sun and the birds and all that crap, but it affects me in so many neggative ways- if it's not the agoraphobia causing me issues, it's the intense self harm- if it's not that, it's the mood shift, if it's not that, it's the long days and not knowing what the hell to do with them, if it's not that, it's the heat, it's always something

people think i'm weird because i don't like summer, but honestly, i've got good reason too... summer sucks