I never have full on mania. If it comes I have 1-3 weeks of mild mania and mild depression and they swap around 2-4 times a day. The mania is more stronger than the depression and lasts longer too. They last1-3 hours when im on climax, 1-7 hours where i feel energetic and conifdent and fearless, etc. Then i'll have months where i'm depressed, fully. Or sometimes i'll have the odd manic phase, but my mood wont swap around 2-4 times a day. I know i had full on depression from november last year - janurary/march this year. Then i went into help and stupidly decided to tell the counciller im okay because i wanted to be left alone. Then in may i had a week of mild mania and mild depression mood swings. In august i had 3 weeks of mild mania and mild depression mood swings, and they were extreme. When i'm experiencing mild mania i talk for hours and hours that my throat will hurt. I wont think before i speak and i'll uncontrollably say whatever i feel. I'll drink as much alcohol as i can get and that is the only time i will smoke. (There is way more i just cant be bothered to explain). However, some people have said i have traits of borderline, which i have practically all of the symptoms when I'm depressed. Which is now. and i have been since mid septemeber. I have had generalized anxiety disorder since i was 7 or 8 years old too. i turned 14 in april.