Hullo butterfly. I too was diagnosed for years as depressive (unipolar) until I was reassessed as bipolar during a hospitalization. It threw me off for a bit, as I really didn't know much about pb disorder. And I still haven't found an effective med regimen to stabilize it (in fact recently, it had been more unstable than ever -- a chain of events set off by high stress at work and a very bad reaction to a medication). Keep on truckin', though, luv. This page is a great place to learn from others with bp disorder, and coming here is how I started to get a grasp of the illness too. Ta. Cheshire Cat