You could also experience mixed mood episodes, which means you’ll have symptoms of depression and hypomania simultaneously. With bipolar II, though, you won’t experience mania. If you have a m ...

Here, I’ll explain my mood symptoms—depression, mania, hypomania, and mixed states—and share what it’s like living with a ...

As you might expect, symptoms look very different depending on whether you’re in a period of hypomania or a period of depression. It’s possible you could have mixed symptoms in one episode.

Bipolar I One or more manic or mixed episodes, usually accompanied by major depressive episodes Bipolar II One or more major depressive episodes accompanied by at least one hypomanic episode ...