Navigating and Understanding Hypomania

Once this community gets off the ground, I do envision having good discussion and perspective on people’s individual experiences with mania, hypomania, and depression. I’m BP-II, so the hypomania-depression cycle is my burden. Navigating these is one thing, but dealing with the repercussions and emotions after is a whole different challenge. I know there is a lot of confusion, shame, embarrassment, and frustration because those are all things I feel and deal with. And there are no neat ways to wrap them all up, stick them in a box, and move on, you just live with them.

Anyway, we’ll get to a lot of that later. In the meantime, I found this piece from Psychology Today really interesting in how it describes hypomania, how we currently understand it, and how it impacts us. Worth a read, it’s short. Sorry about the cover picture, though some hypomania can feel like that sometimes, at least before the wheels start to come off.