I feel like I am easily triggered into hypomanic episodes by over excitement , if I don't get too excited I can stay level for 1-3 months at a time and I recover quickly. But excitement seems to trigger these really bad episodes. I get over the depression quickly, but these hypo episodes can destroy everything and even cause me to lose my freedom and the triggered ones can last a week. Last one was triggered by me getting excited for the halftime show. Today I woke up to a bird running for it's life from my cats. It took me two hours to get it safely out of the apartment. Mostly because I had to constantly intercept the cats. Don't worry, the bird made it out unharmed. Now as soon as I get done writing this I'm going to try to meditate to break this fall. Does this happen to anyone else? What do you do when it happens? Does that help?