Recurrent brief depression VS bipolar

Isn't recurrent brief depression closer to bipolar than to major depression. It has about ten depression episodes for a year and a half of the patients have hypomania episodes too. So recurrent brief depression might be missgiven with a bipolar form. The difference is that there is no mania episodes. I believed I had mania episodes, but now I know I've been wrong. I had had hypomania episodes and I believe I have recurrent brief depression, so I'm not bipolar, but I'll continue write here, because it's the colsest forum to my disorder ( and I like the people too ).I guess I have a rare disorder.

Hi Nephilium,
I'm glad you feel good being part of the forum.
You are part of our family.

I found your post a little confusing.
I'm not sure if you have mania or hypomania, but it is clear you have recurrent brief depressions.
Labels like "bipolar" or "not bipolar" tend to divide us. What we have in common are extreme moods and emotional pain.

My difficulties began to get worse around age 30. Between age 40 and 50 I tried a couple medications and saw a psychiatrist. He was treating my symptoms, not giving me a label. When I was 50, another psychiatrist gave me the label "bipolar."

When I discuss mental health with somebody, I am less interested in what they have, and genuinely care about how they are at the moment.

So keep on coming back to the forum. Look to us for information and support, and offer support to the other forum participants.

Take care,

Recurrent brief depression may or may not be on the bipolar spectrum (it certainly has features of such; atypical symptoms, mixed features, brief hypomania as you've said), but it's currently severely understudied as a clinical concept owning to its relatively recent inclusion in the DSM. Most practitioners don't know what you're talking about when you mention it to them and think you're just talking about recurrent depressive episodes in general.

Citation for the study that reports hypomania in ~50% of RBD

But, uh, just because the DSM lists RBD as 'unipolar' doesn't mean it's so, either. Remember that there's a growing amount of evidence that many unipolars are closer to bipolarity than we previously assumed.

I think I have a clinical depression too, because I'm depressed most of the time lately
Since the hypomania episode I have a lot mood swings and everything depress me
Is it possible recurrent depression to become a bipolar disorder?