madmama74 ...
as Onyx said there are so many variations of Bp.Best to see a Pdoc.
I was also diagnosed with depression & was medicated for over a year with antidepressants that ultimatly made things worse.
I was depressed as a teen too......15 years old cutting, burning, and plans to throw myself down the stairs.....I never got help.My brother did though....they had him locked up, on and off,for 4 years in a mental ward at the age of 13.
I was told his first dx was ADD it was in the end BIPOLAR 1.

I seen the hospital as an aweful place and I was NEVER going there.I should of got help.My family was too wrapped up in constant crisis to notice and I couldnt ask.

Lithium has worked pretty good for me....hopefully youll get the right dx and the right meds.....

Good luck