Many of my symptoms are kind of clear cut. Some not. I got the doctor back that thinks I have bipolar. I had some medication triggered hypomanic episodes but that does not make you bipolar IMO. When I had her last and she thought I had it, my moods were all over the place, sure. But that does not have to be bipolar. I'm stable with just an SSRI and no "mood stabilizer", not sure that would be possible for a bipolar person. After I got on the right meds I've never had any hypomania. I used to "want" to be labeled with BP back then (ages ago) but I think it was because they took bipolars seriously and us depressed people were just told we were lazy. So for me for a while I didn't see depression as a real illness because my therapist told me bipolar is real but depression is just laziness and bad habits.