I sought help for depression because it can be debilitating. I didn't understand the diagnoses either, but in time it made sense. If I was hypo, I was happy, what's wrong with that? But I tend to also get the irritability type of hypo mania and that started to make sense once I started paying more attention to my behavior and read more about bp. So it can be shocking at first to many people, but they get paid the big bucks for a reason.