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I agree with Trippin about the downside of thinking of ourselves as diseased. I think that it can turn into a vicious cycle of feeling hopeless and helpless in the face of it.
I know it may not feel like it right now, but in some ways, I think, there can be more hope in dealing with situational depression, as you say you are in the midst of now, than episodes. Episodes are mostly -in theory- resolved with medication (not that therapy can't help as well), but medications can be unreliable, plus the side effects of increasing doses and/or adding new ones. With therapy, things like DBT, and perhaps lifestyle changes, there's hope out there in combatting this. Plus, when something is situational, it tends to get better when that situation has blown over and/*or* if one manages to think about it in a different way, cope in different ways.
So I know it may not seem like it now, but there is hope. A lot of people have had success with DBT and other types of therapy -it's, of course, not easy though. Just keep in mind that the bipolar aspect of things does not prevent one from getting and feeling better when life hits us in nasty ways.
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