Bipolar Mixed Mood State

So what is a Mixed Mood State? We'll find out today!

So a Mixed Mood State is you have symptoms of being Depression and of being Mania at the same-time.


Now if you have ask me what mixed mood episodes/state was oh I don't know a year or two ago the best way could explain it was it where you go back and forth between Depression and Mania so fast it seam like your having both at the same-time but that better to explained a ultra-ultra-rapid cycling also call ultradian where it is often difficult to tell between ultradian cycling from a mixed episode.

So back to Mixed Mood State now.


So as you know from my post on being Mania Symptoms of being Mania are

• Decreased Need for Sleep without fatigue.
• Racing Speech.
• Racing Thoughts, Obsessive Thoughts, and Grandiose Thoughts
• Increased Energy, Activity, and Restlessness.
• Increased Irritability.
• Heightened Mood
• Exaggerated Optimism
• Exaggerated Self-Confidence
• Poor Judgment.
• Reckless Behavior
• Increased Sociability
• Easily Distracted
• Excessively High, Overly Good, Euphoric Mood
• Delusions and Hallucinations.
• Acting on impulse

And as you know from my post on being Depression Symptoms of being Depression are

• Significant changes in appetite and sleep patterns
• Loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed
• feelings of hopelessness or pessimism
• feelings of guilt even if we did nothing that cause us to feel guilt
• feelings of worthlessness
• feelings of helplessness
• decreased energy, a feeling of fatigue or of being "slowed down"
• difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
• Prolonged sadness or unexplained crying spells
• chronic pain or other persisting bodily symptoms that are not caused by physical illness or injury

So the best way to view mixed mood is how it is show hear.
as waves (well the waves are a good way to view how all of bipolar work not just mixed mood)

With the green curve for mood, the red curve for energy and the black curve for intellect as in speed of thought, creativity, ability to connect ideas.

If you can't make out this image that well then read this.

So hear are some way that Mixed Mood State have manifest for me.

Feeling this Unnatural/Limitless Energy on the outside and on the inside you feel empty, worthless, hopeless, just try and feel what that like it not fun at all, it 100% hell for me.

Having Racing Thoughts, and the Euphoric Mood that come with a Mania/Hypomania Episode and having the decreased energy that come with a Depression Episode your just laying there thinking about what you need to do/get done for-today but your body just will not move no matter how hard you try to move it.

The agitated depression with is just the Symptoms of being Depression with the Increased Irritability that go with a Mania/Hypomania Episode.

This is only someway that Mixed State have manifest for me. This is not how it manifest for everyone that have bipolar. After all bipolar disorder is a spectrum disorder

If you have any questions,comment leave them below.