You never quite hit the full on mania ceiling but the highs still rearrange your life. People call you productive without seeing the crash coming. This code lives in the space between, where hypomania and depression keep trading custody of your calendar. The hat is a small nod to the part of you that keeps rescheduling life around unreliable mood weather. It is for the humans who have learned to pack sunglasses and a raincoat in the same emotional bag.

Bipolar II involves at least one hypomanic episode and one major depressive episode without a history of full mania. Hypomania brings increased energy and activity but not the severe impairment seen in mania while depression phases can be deep and long lasting. Bipolar II is often reduced to "hypomania plus depression," as if the lighter word makes it an easier illness. In reality the cycling itself can be its own form of exhaustion, constantly adjusting to energy and hope that refuse to stay put. The hat is a reminder that there is nothing "minor" about navigating those shifts.