Other Types: This is a category in which you experience some symptoms of bipolar disorder.
Essentially, there are two types of symptoms: manic symptoms and depressive symptoms.
Hypomanic episodes An 1858 lithograph captioned 'Melancholy passing into mania' is the milder form of mania, defined as at least four days of the same criteria as mania, but which does not cause a significant decrease in the individual's ability to socialize or work, lacks psychotic features such as or , and does not require psychiatric hospitalization.