My doctor explained to me that I have manic episodes, depressive episodes, psychotic symtpoms that can occur inside and outside mood episodes and other symptoms of schizophrenia such as flat affect, loosely connected ideas like word salad sometimes, etc and negative symptoms. Apparently the diagnosis is a little more complex than the common view of it's just when you have psychotic symptoms outside of mood episodes. there's another diagnosis, i forget what it's called. I think Bipolar w/ mood incongruent psychotic features or something like that

there's an interesting thread on it in the bipolar forum here

Bipolar 2, Bipolar 1, Schizoaffective Disorder