Note: This document is work-in-progress. Please don’t publish it on news sites, or otherwise link to it in public without the author’s permission. Private linking is acceptable.
In regard to hypomanias, Wikipedia gives the following symptoms:
Pressured speech; rapid talking
Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity;
Decreased need for sleep;
Flight of ideas or the subjective experience that thoughts are racing;
Easy distractibility and attention-deficit (superficially similar to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder);
Increase in psychomotor agitation; and
Steep involvement in pleasurable activities that may have a high potential for negative psycho-social or physical consequences.
It’s a pretty good description of me when I’m hypomanic.