hypomania

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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. 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 For predictions of mania or hypomania, the top five variables were heart rate, sleep efficiency, percentage of sleep spent in REM sleep, number of very active minutes, and median bedtime. New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024 These depressive symptoms may dominate for years before symptoms of hypomania develop. Wendy Wisner, Health, 27 Nov. 2024 In general, the hypomania symptoms associated with bipolar 2 may occur at a later age than bipolar 1. 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 Cyclothymia symptoms are less-intense hypomania and depression that do not meet clinical criteria for hypomania or depression. Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 15 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypomania
Noun
  • This policy is particularly dangerous for people living with schizophrenia, a condition that can profoundly impair a person’s ability to function in daily life.
    Carali McLean, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2025
  • Recent research has looked at its potential benefits, in very low doses, for treatment of depression, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Some models affirm signs of psychosis more than half the time when prompted.
    Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • She had been concerned over his struggle with addiction and mental health, which had led to period of psychosis.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • As fear blurs into paranoia, the film explores the unsettling reality of surveillance, obsession and the quiet dread of being followed. Stomach It | 2024 | United States | Peter Klausner | A crime scene cleaner struggles with emotionally detaching from the deceased’s personal possessions.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
  • Davila-Alvarez said the decision to follow her daughter was not made out of paranoia but from practicality—and love.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • There’s a quiet mania about people like Stephen A., who work both morning and late shifts, on the same days.
    Danyel Smith, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
  • The resentment that artists feel about the act of laundering their patron’s cultural cache has been around at least as long as the Greeks were dealing with Alcibiades, but Mac brings a pleasurably vicious mania to this particular play-as-tirade.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Due to his battle with dementia, Wilson was placed under a conservatorship in February 2024, weeks after the death of his wife, Melinda Ledbetter Wilson.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 26 June 2025
  • Fannie’s Friends support group: Fannie’s Friends is a virtual support group for adult daughters and granddaughters caring for those living with dementia.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Pryor was a savant at polishing his challenging circumstances and debilitating neuroses into crowd-pleasing material, and this is broadly how he’s remembered in comedy history.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 May 2025
  • Both leads are superb, equally aggravated and aggravating, brittle with neuroses that occasionally relax and part to reveal gentle need.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 May 2025

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“Hypomania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypomania. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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