Bipolar 2 Tracker: Catching What You'd Dismiss
Hypomania feels like a good week. More energy, more confidence, less sleep. You don't want to track it because it doesn't feel like a problem. That's exactly why you need to.
The bipolar 2 tracking problem
Bipolar 2 is harder to track than bipolar 1 — because hypomania doesn't feel like a problem. You're sleeping less but feel rested. You're more productive. You're more social. Why would you flag that?
Because what goes up comes down. And the depressive episode that follows hypomania is often worse than standalone depression. The key to managing bipolar 2 is catching hypomania early — before it peaks and triggers the crash.
How Steadyline tracks hypomania
Steadyline doesn't wait for you to report "I'm hypomanic." It watches the patterns:
- Sleep trending down — 7 hours → 6.5 → 6 → 5.5 over a week
- Energy trending up — without extra caffeine or exercise
- Irritability increasing — the signal most people miss during hypomania
- Psychomotor acceleration — restlessness, talking faster, multitasking more
When these signals converge, the AI flags it — even when you feel fine. Especially when you feel fine.
The depression side
Bipolar 2 is often misdiagnosed as unipolar depression because patients spend far more time depressed than hypomanic. Tracking both ends of the spectrum — and the transitions between them — gives your psychiatrist the data to differentiate bipolar 2 from depression and adjust treatment accordingly.
Logging on your worst day is hard. Steadyline is designed to work when you're at your lowest — minimal input, maximum insight.
Why AI matters for bipolar 2
Hypomania is subtle. A human reviewing their own data might not see the pattern. AI catches the 0.5-hour sleep decrease sustained over 4 nights, the energy score climbing from 6 to 8, the irritability uptick — and connects them into a coherent early warning.
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