So for a couple weeks I didn't really notice at the time but I think I may have been hypomanic again. From about the 25th August I'd been feeling very good, more than usual. I had lots of business plans, plans to make lots of art, how to become famous online, spend about £170 on healing crystals because I felt that that was what I needed to get better. Ugh. Never even been interested in that sort of stuff before but of course it felt like a necessary purchase at the time. I'd probably been averaging 5 or 6 hours sleep a night and sometimes 7 or 8. Just generally very optimistic, creative chatty and in a great mood. This has come after about 6 months of consistently stable mood.

Anyways the last week and a half has been very up and down, mostly down. Now i just generally feel depressed, unmotivated and have given up on all the ideas I'd previously thought were amazing investments and plans that would change my life. Slept 16 hours today and cant get out of bed to even eat. Just feeling fed up I guess I am in fact not 'better' snd the happiness I felt could have just been hypomania creeping up on me. For the record I have been told that I am on the bipolar spectrum (cyclothymia, severe depression and bp2 symptoms for a few years now) but I don't currently have a bipolar diagnosis although I feel that is what the issue is here. 

I take venlafaxine 75mg daily which has been working great for the last half a year. Going to continue with this medication and hope it may ease what I'm assuming is now a depressive episode. Any thoughts or opinions very welcome, thanks you all in advance! :)