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A mixed state is like a delicious sundae made with both caramel sauce and cod liver oil, served on a tantalizing waffle cone of rage. A mixed state is the term for when you experience both manic and depressive symptoms at the same time for at least a week. They generally fall into two categories: dysphoric mania and agitated depression'yin and yang. The former is mania accompanied by things like anger and thoughts of suicide, and the latter is depression with symptoms of hypomania. Not as much is known about mixed states as about vanilla mania or depression, and many people's real experiences of mixed episodes don't meet the diagnostic criteria. Like rapid cycling, this is one of those gray areas that will probably see its definition tweaked a lot over the next hundred years.