Does Bipolar involve fluctuating confidence?

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So I think I might be Bipolar. I feel very confident some days and somedays I just feel useless. I am depressed as hell somedays and other days I am super-happy and nothing brings my mood down. I feel like two very different personalities during each of the phases. However my super-depression phase doesn't go on for days though. Its just a day or two (during my menstrual cycle). My confidence is not dependent on my mood. Does this sound like Bipolar?

My depressive states last two weeks usually. When on medicine. Off medicine I go between elated and suicidal 3-4 times a day.

I have not been dxd bipolar but my psychiatrist is prescribing medicine as if I have it. I've asked both my psychiatrist and therapist to get diagnosed but neither thinks it's necessary. I don't understand it. I'd like to know if I'm bipolar.

I have one week of nothing-can-touch-me super-confidence a month and one week of average confidence, which for me is actually higher than the average person's in that people still call me delusional in my less confident but still positive state.

Anyway we sound similar if not in details then in overall picture!

Depression runs on both sides of my family and I could be quite melancholy as a kid so there's a strong genetic predisposition but when usually it's triggered by loneliness... well yeah, not meeting goals in a) personal relationships (not having even kissed anyone till 25) or b) the artistic (career) realm (I wanted to kill myself for over a year because I would never be able to write like Zadie Smith)

All of this is fed through my body dysmorphia, which has specific triggers like being exposed to sun (making me worry about sun damage and ageing and being unwanted and time passing me by).

So in general: loneliness and failure are the triggers and it manifests of hatred of my very body.