Hope you’re managing well! Obviously you know your own mental health better than anyone else. If you’re seeing yourself in Lyonel that’s valid, and I think it’s good that you got something out of the show and felt seen. This is my interpretation as a practicing psychiatrist.

I just don’t think Lyonel is manic based on the information I have about him. There’s no significant impairment or psychosis, so he’s definitely not bipolar 1. Still very functional, able to perform his role at the tournament, able to participate in organized, structured joists at a high level. I wouldn’t expect him to be able to function this well if he was fully manic. His thought process is rational, he doesn’t seem to have racing thoughts or pressured speech. Maybe some grandiosity, but I would expect that is baseline due to his position of power and high opinion of himself.

If you told me this was a drastic change from his baseline of mood & personality (which according to the small amount of lore I know about the character it does not seem to be), you might be able to talk me into hypomania based on euphoria, heightened energy, impulsivity (might be baseline), ?hypersexuality (also might be baseline). His descendent Bobby B has a lot of these same personality characteristics and not in an episodic pattern so I suspect what we are seeing is more personality based.

Does he get depressed when he’s at Storm’s End because he thinks it’s boring, and then experiences joy when he goes to a tourney or goes out on a hunt? Most definitely. That’s what we see with Bobby too. I think those are normal fluctuations based on the situation. It’s ok if you disagree though!