How long between your highs and lows?

I'm just curious. It takes three to four days for me to 'crash' or fall into a deep depression after a hypomanic episode. Does anyone else have this happen as regularly as I do?

WW

I don't crash after mania. I rarely have depression as it is. I'm odd, I know.

You're lucky you don't have depression. I rarely have mania and I have more depressed episodes some can last hours-to a couple days, as long as a couple weeks and then I'll be okay for a few days and then back at it again. It's frustrating. If I don't sleep I easily get manic though.

I pave no predictable pattern I don't need to be hypo or manic first to fall into depression.

I have no idea. I'm pretty bad at knowing when I'm hypomanic or mild-moderate depression. I don't think I typically go from one to the other either.

My husband swears that about 4 days after I've been particularly manic (i.e. having a great time regardless of what I'm doing) that I get into a really weird head space and get really depressed. I didn't believe him at first, so I started paying attention to how I felt, and I have to admit he's right. Also my P said it's normal with BPII to go about 4 days between changes in mood.

I'm so confused!

WW

I never get hypomania just depression with various degrees of severity. Very frustrating. At this point I'm not sure I'd recognize happiness if it knocked me in the head.

longest mania was about 2 months and longest depression was 6 normally they last around 3-4 months each episode that includes mixed too. i dont have betweens i go straight from one episode to the next.

Mine vary. I definitely get bad winter depressions. Then in spring I seem to get euphoric/agitated it seems. Summer I seem to get this agitated depression. In each season I still cycle sometimes. I know this by looking back..

But you were still diagnosed with bipolar?

It normally starts with hypomania, progressing to mania, then I crash horrifically, followed by stability.

The hypomania/mania usually lasts two or three months and the depression a bit longer, the stable period is also a few months.

Years. I just don't get depressed as much as manic.

I rarely become manic anymore due to meds but depression plagues me most of the time. This time it has been about 2 years.

Usually 2-3 days between episodes. I can usually tell.

I usually cycle about every ten days. Recently meds have changed that a bit, but whenever I track my moods this is what I come up with.

My manic episodes tend to last a few weeks at the least, sometimes more like a month or two. Depressions last 2-3 months or so. I get a couple of weeks to a couple of months of normal mood in between, but I typically have ongoing psychotic symptoms then.

I'm guessing individual patterns vary between people.

I have short periods of hypomania (maybe 2 weeks) and many consecutive days of depression. (I also deal with a few very painful autoimmune conditions, which adds to the fatigue and depression.) BP II.

Few, if any "normal" days, without depression or the rare hypomania.


WC

A couple weeks usually.

Unmediated I was in a two week cycle. Two weeks up, maybe a couple of normal days, and then two weeks down. Rinse, lather, repeat.

Now that I am properly medicated I am normal 95% of the time. I had a slight hypomania with the unusual warm weather in February, followed by a mild depression that lasted for a week or so. Normal since then.

I have mostly depressive episodes, lasting longer and longer each time. Once in a while if lucky I will get a break and be in that euphoric state where I swear I am just "better" finally, though people who know me recognize before I do that I am in a manic state. Why is it that we are the last to recognize what state we are in? I have had manic episodes, lasting maybe two to three weeks, but then always followed by a massive depressive episode. I am mostly stuck in depression. Being in the middle would just be nice sometime.

My most recent mania lasted roughly 2 months, I then had a couple of weeks of normality followed by the inevitable depression which is approaching 3 months. [Hoping it ends soon!]

I seem to have short depressive periods that are thankfully not as severe as those that many people (my father included) seem to have. I seem to be in a hypomanic/verging on manic state a lot of the time with the occasional period of stability.
The depressive periods last maybe a few days to a week or so, but the elevated periods of hypomania/mania last for a couple of months or more.

Yes bipolar 2. Thinking back on it I do have rare periods of high energy and high spirits but I've always wondered if that's because the depression has lifted and I'm just so happy. I've questioned before if I'm bipolar 2 or just severely depressed. My doctor assures me it is bipolar 2 and when this started 17 years ago I was hypomanic. That's not how I remembered it but ok.

I used to think the same thing, that I just had a lot of energy and was high spirited. I was actually diagnosed for the first time in 2008, but I rejected the diagnosis and the meds. Big mistake. It got worse and worse. The depressive episodes are horrible. Now I take Wellbutrin, Viibrid, Vyvanse, and Abilify. Finally, I'm starting to understand how it feels to 'be normal', whatever that means.

Mine is totally unpredictable. Despite thorough analysis for two years, there aren't patterns.