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Yup, sure have. I didn't even really realise it until recently when I changed Psychiatrists. It's called a "mixed state" apparently - and he, after speaking to me for 2 hours solid, could see it happening in that short space of time. I was dropping down into depression about 8 weeks ago, could feel it coming, but was also very very prone to agitation and elevated mood (but not a good mood, just a fast bad mood!). I was doing the housework like a maniac but then gettting very frustrated etc, then the low mood would hit and tears and no energy at all. Weird feeling, but the lithium seems to be doing the trick (really good so far - 4 weeks coming up) and I feel sort of "up but relaxed". Last week even baked a cake (usually the kind of thing to throw me into a spin - don't like baking cakes and don't like eating cakes - but did it with my daughter and, well, blow me down it was fun, actual fun!). So yeah, anyway, it's a "mixed state" in the language of my P-doc. Cheers N