Although 'severely elevated mood' sounds pleasant, the actual experience of mania is usually unpleasant and frightening for the person involved.
Other manic symptoms include hypersexuality, religiosity, and hyperactivity.
Mania can also be experienced at the same time as depression, in so-called [dysphoric mania]?.
This has caused speculation amongst doctors that mania and depression are two independent axes in the a bipolar spectrum, rather than opposites.