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Recent Examples of hypomania
Cycling between periods of mania or hypomania – high energy and excitement – and depression can have an enormous impact on a person’s daily life, work, and relationships.
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New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
And then fifteen years later, divorce uprooted us all; my family-first ethic hadn’t withstood the episodes of depression and hypomania that, eerily for me, took hold of my husband for a handful of years at midlife.
—Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
He was eventually diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a mental health condition that is marked by a mix of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression, mania and a milder form of mania called hypomania, according to Mayo Clinic.
—Liz McNeil, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
These depressive symptoms may dominate for years before symptoms of hypomania develop.
—Wendy Wisner, Health, 27 Nov. 2024
Episodes of depression and mania or hypomania (less intense than mania) can cycle with unpredictable timing.
—Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2024
New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
And then fifteen years later, divorce uprooted us all; my family-first ethic hadn’t withstood the episodes of depression and hypomania that, eerily for me, took hold of my husband for a handful of years at midlife.
—Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
He was eventually diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a mental health condition that is marked by a mix of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression, mania and a milder form of mania called hypomania, according to Mayo Clinic.
—Liz McNeil, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
These depressive symptoms may dominate for years before symptoms of hypomania develop.
—Wendy Wisner, Health, 27 Nov. 2024
Episodes of depression and mania or hypomania (less intense than mania) can cycle with unpredictable timing.
—Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypomania
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Michel — who grew up in a hyper-religious family — had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and epilepsy as a teenager.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech gone awry.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 Oct. 2025
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The drug’s upcoming late-stage trial readout on Alzheimer’s psychosis is arguably even more important for long-term investors.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025
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Doctors diagnosed him with psychosis, possibly drug induced.—
Coley Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Amid the paranoia of the Cold War, the eight-episode season (critics received five for review) has many eerie elements, including its parallels to the present day.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
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From there, investigators, journalists, and suspects become entangled in a labyrinth of fear, obsession, and paranoia.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
22 Oct. 2025
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Students and teachers prepared for the band's arrival with the band's legendary black-and-white face paint, and the city was soon engulfed in rock 'n' roll mania.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Unlike Monster, which attempts to absolve itself from feeding into Gein mania by focusing on the other writers and directors inspired by that serial killer, Devil in Disguise doesn’t try to implicate its audience in the sport of watching true crime.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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It’s linked to higher rates of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, digestive disorders, autoimmune disease, dementia, depression, Parkinson’s, cancer—and, of course, insomnia.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Research published in the Journal of Sleep Research in 2021 found that people who commonly woke up in the night and had trouble getting back to sleep on a nightly basis—effectively depriving themselves of restorative sleep—had a nearly 40% higher risk of developing dementia.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
23 Oct. 2025
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Ephron gives Rachel, the character modeled after herself, a handful of upper middle-class neuroses and places her in group therapy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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In isolation, the scenario is an archetypal neurosis long familiar to Asian American men, often cast near the bottom of the dating ladder in the United States.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Hypomania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypomania. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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