Hypomania can be a symptom of bipolar disorder. In hypomania, your mood will be elevated, and you'll feel energized much more than usual. The change will be noticeable to the people around you.

Mania and hypomania are periods where a person feels elated, very active, and full of energy. Hypomania is a milder form of mania. Hypomania may mean a person can carry on with daily tasks, but it can ...

Mania causes atypically high levels of physical and mental energy in people with bipolar disorder. Hypomania causes these same symptoms, but they’re not as intense or long lasting. Mania can occur in ...

Hypomania often boosts energy and insight, but some dismiss your ideas as mood-driven. Here’s how I stay steady and keep moving forward. When my mental health isn’t 100 percent, I’m open about it with ...

Racing thoughts, restlessness, and sleep changes — these signs can mean different things. Here’s how people with bipolar disorder tell them apart. Both anxiety and mania or hypomania are common in ...

"When they discuss hypomania on the Today Show, I'll know my work is done," I told a close colleague when my book, The Hypomanic Edge, was published in 2005. At that time, very few outside the mental ...

My previous post covered the controversy about why people think it is not possible to be hypomanic without losing control. It is a good backdrop for this post. There are four steps that lead to ...