 [ Symptoms ] 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 [ Disease ] i did not 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 do not 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