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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
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
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
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The attorney of the fourth and latest suspect arrested in connection to the Cincinnati fight claims his client has schizophrenia.—
Enquirer staff,
The Enquirer,
3 Aug. 2025
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Family members said Valdez suffered from schizophrenia and had been in and out of various hospitals across the previous 18 years.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
30 July 2025
Noun
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Weed's linked to everything from psychosis to violent behavior to dementia.—
Kevin Sabet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
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Introducing Rachel Aviv’s report on one woman’s stunning recovery from psychosis.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
Noun
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Their paranoia is no longer hidden; it is broadcast from the headlines of state media.—
Tom Ridge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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That both films are fueled by paranoia is no coincidence.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 July 2025
Noun
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Now, with the S&P 500 trading at new records, the resurgence of meme mania and a pro-crypto White House supporting the crypto industry, investors are looking further out on the risk spectrum of crypto hoping for bigger gains.—
Tanaya Macheel,
CNBC,
28 July 2025
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Pop music, like the rest of American society, has reached the exhausted endpoint of the taboo-litigation mania that’s marred the past decade of our national life.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
25 July 2025
Noun
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The material about his aging father, now living with dementia, is refreshingly candid, especially a riff on the surprising silver lining of a parent who no longer has a filter.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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For a decade, Alma Valencia has taken on the task of caring for her mother, Arminda, who suffers from dementia.—
Marina E. Franco,
NBC news,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Not only was part two different in the neurosis of a pop singer, but the Melrose lot sold it on scares (in addition to wicked grinning people showing up at major events).—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
30 June 2025
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Agnes is socially competent, even charismatic, but beset by neuroses that seem genuinely frustrating to her, not the self-satisfied post-Woody Allen solipsism common to auteurs of this ilk.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
27 June 2025
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“Hypomania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypomania. Accessed 9 Aug. 2025.
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