Can caffeine trigger slight hypomania?

I wanted to know if feeling happy on coffee is related to a possible mood disorder? Because, most people only feel awake when they drink coffee. But when I drink it, I don't only feel awake, I also feel happier, more energetic, more hyperactive, more optimistic, more motivated, more talkative, and start to have lot of goals. I never felt manic on coffee though, just a bit happier than usual. More like a slight hypomania that you can find in cyclothymia. So I want to know if it's normal to feel like that on caffeine? Caffeine is a stimulant so maybe it can trigger hypomanic-like symptoms. However, most people don't experience it. They just feel awake on coffee. Caffeine makes me feel not like I usually feel without coffee! Does that mean I have a possible mood disorder like cyclothymia? I know I have depression (i've been diagnosed with it) but not sure about the cyclothymia part... But it's strange that I feel like that on caffeine. Have you ever felt like this when you drink coffee?

Thanks all for your replies

I'm extremely caffeine sensitive, and coffee does indeed induce something in me that looks a lot like hypomania, I can get very agitated and it can be very difficult to stop chattering away. I do initially feel quite a mood boost and coffee can help me get a lot done. It also makes my anxiety much worse. I have a cup of coffee 2 or 3 times a year as a special treat, but drinking it regularly is disastrous for me.

I do have a diagnosis of bipolar II rapid cycling, and an anxiety disorder.

Not sure if that's helpful to you, meow, but that's my experience with coffee.

Coffee/caffeine make me hypomanic to to the point that I totally gave it up 12 years ago. I not only was getting a bad boost I was using it to lift my mood up into hypomania the same way some people use drugs. Stopping it was one of my better decisions in taking care of my bipolar disorder.

I understand. But I think hypomania is still better than depression. And if caffeine decrease your depressive episodes, It's then okay to drink it. I agree that Mania is dangerous. But hypomania is not so dangerous, as it doesn't require hozpitalization and doesn't trigger psychotic features. But yeah our both cases are very different, because you have hypomania with coffee, but I can't say I get proper hypomania with coffee, it's rather a very slight hypomania, you know there is mania, then hypomania then something called "hyperthymia" that you encounter in cyclothymia disorder. Hyperthymia is less than hypomania. Just like hypomania is less than mania. Hyperthymia is a very slight upbeat mood, without being dangerous at all. So I can get coffee I guess... I don't use coffee as a recreational drug, but as a medicine to help me cope with depression. It's sad to say, but my brain doesn't naturally creates dopamine and serotonin (neurotransmitters responsible of happiness feeling) I mean my dopamine and serotonin levels are VERY LOW, I so I NEED coffee to have normal serotonin and dopamine levels. Otherwise I'm depressed everydays.

I don't try to impose my opinions to you and try to make you drink coffee again, it's not that, I'm just sharing my own experience with coffee. As said again, our disorders a very different, you have bipolar disorder, while I "just" have a cyclothymia disorder. So coffee is less dangerous to me than it is for you.