See, another reason I don't think i'm bipolar. I don't take medication and still generally work pretty well. I wonder if you can have major depressive disorder and hypomania without being bipolar. Because i tend to fit those categories better ("more neatly") then the others. Like, I almost always test to some degree of mania - maybe that's just "me". Whereas, on the other hand, depression has always been an impact on my quality of life to some degree. Its so confusing.