I'm no psychiatrist, but if I were I'd have to reclassify you as Bipolar NOS/NEC. You're kind of all over the map and you're experiencing things that don't really happen in Bipolar II. FWIW, I'm in the same boat as I'm just now coming out of a nasty dysphoric mania (and my pdoc called it mania, not hypomania) that's probably going to change my dx to BP I. But slapping a label on something like you've described doesn't do anything to fix it; all it does is make sure the doctor or PNP gets paid.
I definitely think you need to be reassessed, though. BP does progress if not treated, or treated improperly, and this may be what's happening. As I think my own example goes to show, diagnosis is a fluid, not a static thing, although I don't believe one gets to go back to being BP II once the criteria for full-blown mania are reached and cross over into BP I territory. Hope this helps you.
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