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Welcome!
I don't see bipolar disorder listed amongst your 'mental health concerns' --have you been diagnosed? I understand, though, if you don't want to list it, I don't either.
If you have concerns about what is going on, parsing out what is what, if you haven't already, I'd recommend you see a psychiatrist for an evaluation. This is such a tricky diagnosis to make to begin with, but it looks like you're a teenager which, with all that goes on in that stage of life, might make it all the more complicated.
I'd try to trust in knowing what you *feel* --no one can take that away from you, you know best what emotions and experiences are coming from your most authentic self. The rest is just labels. But if these hypomanic experiences are seriously interfering with your well-being, then I would consult a psychiatrist --you say that the depression is treatable, but not the hypomania -but it is. Unfortunately, though, mood stabilizers like Lamictal, which typically have few side effects, tend to help with depression more than hypo/mania, and the medications targeted at hypo/mania's tend to be more difficult to tolerate. But if these episodes are really affecting you, you could consider, with the help of a doctor, the possibility of treating it.
Good luck and let us know how things go!
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