Session didnt go well today

I spoke to my T today about my concern about bipolar and it he does not think i suffer from it. Thats fine with me, but what annoyed me was the reasons why.
He said i had many problems similar to people with bipolar, but what eliminated me from having it was the fact that i know some things or events can trigger my mood, or that i still love my son when feeling down. He also said that if i was bipolar it was impossible to go up and down as frequent as i do. I can go up and down daily. I mentioned rapid cycling but he said that you only develop that because of medicine

What he described to me was all bipolar 1, not a hint of bipolar type 2.

he then said i need to write down whar thoughts i get when feeling down and the we have dto discuss that further.. Blaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Now i am back to square one..

Hmmmm. How long have you been with this therapist?

not very long at all. Have seen him weekly over a month aand a bit

hmmm... it troubles me that he would find something wrong with you loving your son even when you're down. i had a major depressive episode that required inpatient treatment. and though it was terrible, i still loved my boys. they are what kept me alive. they actually both got sick with bronchitis while i was in the hospital and i was so concerned about them that i completely disregarded what i was going through and was overly concerned about them. i don't know about that comment. i don't see what that has to do with bipolar disorder. i would be annoyed too. i hope everything works out for you and hey if you feel uncomfortable with that T find someone else. you have to do whatever you need to do for yourself.

Let a psychiatrist make the clinical diagnosis...your therapist shouldn't be making that call.

Oh sorry it is my psychiatrist i went to. I just called it Therapist bacuse everybody else does on here, thought it might be the amercian way of speaking he hee

Psychiatrists are called pdocs here.

Therapists are usually counsellors or psychologists.

Oh, OK! Well, I still don't know if I agree with (or understand) his reasoning, but it's good to know he's a doc. :-)