In what is now called bipolar II, patients go all the way to the depths of depression but are less prone to experience full-blown mania where they completely lose control and become “psychotic,” or thought-disordered. They are more likely to swing only to the less intense—and often sometimes hyperproductive—state of “hypomania,” but are also more likely to “rapid cycle” between depression and hypomania, and have very agitated “mixed states.” That’s me.
