The episode is not severe enough to cause marked impairment in social or occupational functioning, or to necessitate hospitalization, and there are no psychotic features. These are the Two basic types of mania. A person with bipolar disorder can experience both types. In euphoria, a person is high, in love with the world, one with the world, feeling boundless energy, talking a mile a minute, deluded with grandiose thoughts, etc. This kind of mania is generally the kind described in the popular literature.
Dysphoria is another type of mania.
The mood disturbance is sufficiently severe to cause marked impairment in occupational functioning or in usual social activities or relation ships with others, or to necessitate hospitalization to prevent harm to self or others, or there are psychotic features. The symptoms are not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. For at least two years, the presence of numerous periods with hypomanic symptoms and numerous periods with depressive symptoms that does not meet criteria for a Major Depressive Episode. No major depressive episode, manic episode, or mixed episode has been present during the first two years of the disturbance. The symptoms are not better accounted for by Schizoaffective Disorder and are not superimposed in Schizophrenia or another disorder.