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hypomania         
MOOD STATE CHARACTERIZED BY PERSISTENT AND PERVASIVE ELEVATED OR IRRITABLE MOOD
Hypomanic; Hypomanic episode; Hypomanic personality; Hypermania
¦ noun Psychiatry a mild form of mania, marked by elation and hyperactivity.
Derivatives
hypomanic adjective
Hypomania         
MOOD STATE CHARACTERIZED BY PERSISTENT AND PERVASIVE ELEVATED OR IRRITABLE MOOD
Hypomanic; Hypomanic episode; Hypomanic personality; Hypermania
Hypomania (literally "under mania" or "less than mania") is a mental and behavioural disorder,Drs; characterised essentially by an apparently non-contextual elevation of mood (euphoria) that contributes to persistently disinhibited behaviour.
Hypomania Checklist         
DIAGNOSTIC QUESTIONNAIRE IN PSYCHOLOGY
HCL-32
The Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) is a questionnaire developed by Dr. Jules Angst to identify hypomanic features in patients with major depressive disorder in order to help recognize bipolar II disorder and other bipolar spectrum disorders when people seek help in primary care and other general medical settings.

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Hypomania
Hypomania (literally "under mania" or "less than mania") is a mental and behavioural disorder,Drs; characterised essentially by an apparently non-contextual elevation of mood (euphoria) that contributes to persistently disinhibited behaviour.
Examples of use of hypomania
1. It sparked a manic reaction known as hypomania – a condition which causes hyperactivity and an inflated sense of power.
2. To internet users, the British journalist Petronella Wyatt was a combination of Messalina (the Roman Empire‘s most famous prostitute) and Lady Godiva with a bad case of bipolar hypomania.
3. As I have explained in a book on the subject, these traits are all signs of a genetically based, mildly manic temperament, which is not a mental illness, called hypomania.
4. The 30–year–old‘s not guilty plea to murder was accepted by prosecutors on grounds of "diminished responsibility" after medical tests found he was suffering from hypomania causing "cannabis–induced delusions". He broke down in tears in the dock after admitting the lesser charge of manslaughter and also assaulting Mr Butterworth‘s son, Ashley.