i didn't realize at first that bi polar disorder had many variations but it does. i am still not clear on all the types. in your case i guess it would depend on what you went into the hospital for and the diagnoses at that point. i really don't know enough about you and i am not a medical person to say for sure if you were having a depressive episode or have a depressive form of bipolar disorder. it could be either. keep a good doctor as consistant as possible and keep asking questions. education is sometimes one of the best forms of medicatiion too.
what is bipolar depressive type? is that a seperate type of bipolar or is that what a doctor calls a depressed episode? . i was released from a psychiatric hospital and in my discharge papers the doctor had written "bipolar depressive type". i had never heard of that before. i was wondering if a depressive type of bipolar actually exists and what that is? is it a subtype of bipolar or did he maybe just not know what to diagnose me as? . thank you!