I'm bipolar 2 also and I feel depressed more days than not. "Manic" episodes for me now feel more like coming up to a "normal" level, but looking back 20 years ago I can see that I was probably having a lot of manic behavior. I've never had the staying up for days at a time kinda thing, but lots of risky behavior and excessive energy for a week or two at time and then feeling like I just needed to crash for a period of time. However, I was just diagnosed bipolar in the last couple years. I started taking Latuda and the difference in my mood was dramatic, I hadn't felt that good in many years. Unfortunately, it stopped working at the dose I was on and an increased dose gave me bad side effects.