Mania isn’t usually a pleasant feeling, but hypomania can be. It can make you feel like you’re on top of the world – highly creative, energetic, effervescent… all that good stuff. Unfortunately, mania tends to follow with all its bad stuff – irritability, anger, conflicts, maybe even paranoia and hallucinations, and then sometimes the big crash into depression. Treatment can level out the highs and lows, when it works, but people who’ve experienced those highs often miss them.

If your moods are currently in maintenance mode and the peaks and valleys are essentially one big flat plain or plateau, how do you feel about that? Do you miss those hypomanic moments? If so, how did you feel during the peaks? What do you miss most about those times?

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