Mood Swings?

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Bill S

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I'm not sure if any of you have experienced something like this but...every once in a while I just...get the blues really bad. And it's not like anything causes them. I can be insanely happy and have the best moment of my life happen to me and all of a sudden just feel like crap because my mind will focus on negative ideas.

I don't know why it happens. I just entered a relationship a day ago. You'd think I'd be insanely happy! And I am at times. But other times I'll analyze everything that my girlfriend says and wonder if that means she isn't sure about what she wants to do or if she is just acting the way she usually does or....I don't know. Another example is at work. I'll go in cheery, bright-eyed, and ready to work and get paid. But halfway through the day I'll just get depressed and start feeling like shit...for no apparent reason.

I was talking with a friend about it a few days ago, and he says it happens to him too. He'll be fine one moment and then like a sack of bricks, he'll feel really shitty for no reason and will struggle to not have a mental breakdown. And then within 5 minutes, the moment passes.

Does anyone know why this is? I mean I've been dealing with these odd little mood swings for the past year and a half now...and I'm starting to wonder if its a hormone imbalance or something...I just feel like I shouldn't be so down sometimes, even if its only for 5 minutes...when I've got so much to look forward to in life! I guess maybe I'm just a really insecure person? I'll probably never really understand my own emotions at this age...I just wonder if there's something wrong with me.

/end low self-esteemed rant.
 
:confused: Maybe it's just your inner concious feelings, trying to sort out either past crisises, or maybe your just going through a phase. Or you are just a little overwhelmed by the relationship? I'm no therapist, or whatever brain people are, but stress causes mixed emotions.
 
I just wrote an essay on schizophrenia yesterday, and happened to read about many other mental disorders while doing my research and it sounds to me like you have some symptoms of manic depressive illness, more commonly known as bi-polar disorder. It is a medical condition, not a character flaw so dont get too down on yourself about it.

However, there are other plausible causes, being a teenager still(as i am so i can sympathize) hormones are running like mad, and your emotions may settle down once you get past that stage. Another possible cause is that it is stress induced. Stress has a huge effect on all aspects of life, and i wouldn't be surprised if that was a cause.

The only advice i can give is to try to keep a positive attitude and going to a doctor and getting tested for bi-polar disorder or another condition that may be similar. Being bi-polar does not mean your flawed in any way at all, i often feel self conscious about going to a doctor because i feel i can try to handle it on my own, and that i fear being "flawed". However after getting on medication and talking to a doctor about things, i feel much better, and it helps me realize that i am not the only one with health or, for a lack of a better term, mental problems.

Be sure to ask your doctor about side effects first, as they effect people in different ways, and many have very negative side effects.

Good luck, hope you get those mood swings under control.
 
You just need to clam down, forget about society, girlfriends, sex, education,
go for a run or some physical activity or study science and math.

It really doesn't matter what exactly your girlfriend thinks... this applies to anything don't let something annoy you if you think its wrong, instead become more curious and study it.
 
I agree with Irrational you might need to go to the doc and get checked for bi-polar disorder. My brother is the same way and the longer he just tried the deal with it the worse it got. After a while he had to start taking shit like seroquil and many other pills. Don't put something like that off, it could turn bad.

Don't forget about sex...it's a good stress/depression/work relief.
 
Bi-Polar except in the most extreme cases lasts a lot longer than a few minutes. My friend it's called life, and you're in it. There's no cue cards and few hand outs. I feel that way too sometimes, have forever, as do a lot of people. Sometimes a smell or a sound can bring up emotions because subconsciously they remind you of things past you can't even remember. You may be over analyzing your new girl because you've been hurt in the not too distant past, and expect that could happen again. Self-doubt, anxiety, worry, angst, these come and go, hopefully you can shut them out and just enjoy the show!

In any case you'll either grow out of it, or you'll grow used to it, in any case it will very likely get "better".
 
That sounds pretty bad. I would guess it was a disorder and not yourself if you can't think of a cause or there is one but you don't want to reconginze it so it will come out in other ways.
 
Actually you are right. I did have a crappy experience in the recent months and I'm supposing I'm just expecting bad things to come out of this relationship...when really I've got nothing to worry about.

I don't really know if I want to go get tested for bi-polar...because these mood swings aren't severe...they're just unpredictable and inconvenient. It's not like I get in such a slump that I want to just keel over and die...it's more like a tear-jerker moment in a movie...you kinda shed a tear over something that's either really insignificant or trivial because it makes you feel much worse than what really happened.

Also, waaaay too many people are diagnosed with bi-polar or manic depression these days, and I feel like walking into the doctor's office complaining about something so small would instantly grant me a trip to a bottle of La-La-Land.
 
I have situations like that, but it happens to me mainly in the fall or in winter. For me it's Seasonal Affective Disorder. I get really upset...even if I was just happy a few minutes before. My room at home is painted yellow because it would be something bright and it would make me happy. I would also go tanning for the light and the warmth which helped because it was somewhat like the sun in the summer time. I guess that's just my way of coping. I overanalize everything as well...it sucks, I understand.

I hope you stop feelin so blue!
 
Fuck, I think everyone gets this sometimes. I know I do. I get depressed for no reason all the time. Sometimes I just generally hate my life. I don't think it's that unusual. It could be a mental disorder I suppose. My mother insists that my father is Bi-polar, and sometimes I wonder myself. But he's never been officially diagnosed. The thing about bi-polar disorder is that in addition to the nasty dpression, you should also get manic occasionally. That is, you should get so happy and cheerfull for no apparent reason that you start to bug the hell out of everyone around you. If your normal attitude is just normal, and then you get depressed occasionally, you're probably not bi-polar.

But generally I think everyone goes through mood swings, and you just have to try to put your mind on something else when you get depressed.
 
It's responses like these that make my day better. Thanks to all of you...if I ever feel blue again I know most of you will be here to make me look to the bright side.
 
that would be extremly rapidly cylcling on the bi-polar, and in general *most* phychiatric breaks dont happen until early 20's. Yep, I vote for general life, and constantly looking for a reason to fail, will get you just that a reason to fail.
Overanalyzing, overthinking seperates the body from the mind. MJK

try looking at what you do have, instead of the negative aspects, its all a mindset, usually things could always get worse somehow
 
I go through mood swings all the time (that isn't bragging btw) and it can get really annoying... at the moment i'm in a pissed-off grumpy mood, but same time last month i was a happy cheerful bunny making jokes and farting about.

I can come to the conclusion that my recent mood swing is due to my boss. She's a dumbass fucking bitch. She asks me to do something, we agreed that it would be a plain and simple idea and that we wouldn't go into details about things. So i make these cards for the toddler group we've got in today and the theme is hibernation. I want to get the fact across saying the SQUIRRELS semi hibernate and i find a picture of a squirrel (happens to be a red squirrel). So we're in the woods setting this shit up and i take my picture out of this red squirrel and she say, "thats a red squirrel! we don't have red squirrels here, I would have used a grey squirrel." DO IT YOURSELF THEN YOU DUMB FUCKING BITCH!

That was yesterday, but all the fucking time she's saying this shit. Contracting me in everyway possible, asking me to lead groups and then takes half the group somewhere else to look at a fucking mushroom. So just simple little things like that can change my mood in a second.

I know this thread isn't about me. I do suffer from depression and for the last 9 months i've been on tablets... I slowly coming off them and hope that i don't have to go back on them. But if this shit carries on, it will start to effect my assignments so i might have to get back on them.

I hope that you can get settled into a single mood guyy, it really really sucks having constant swings. I know my post hasn't helped you much, but there are other people who get these swings lol. You're not alone :tongue:
 
Blow her mind. Give her a black squirrel. They live in Letchworth in Hertfordshire.
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That's weird... Ive been dealing with something simaler to what you have Welshy. I mean ive had Bi-Polar ever since i was a kid and its hard to deal with sometimes becuase it like having two times the emotion of a male or female. When your off the medication(ive been off of it for three months now) and i can tell you it sucks coming off for a week but it gets better and your a better person. Really it's normal to feel that mood swingy no matter what. Let me tell you a story.

Ive been with my girlfriend for three months and its been the happyiest times of my life, but during the beginning ive analyzed everything she said. I worried that she would break up with me because of how i was sad sometimes on the phone with her. Untill ive talked to her about my emotions and how they can get like that and she didint worry or back off she understood and reassured me about it in a good way and never stops doing that. Shes helped me a whole lot and really its been nothing but pure happyness. So ive been happy and shes been vary happy because ive communicated to her about my problems.

I mean over time the relationship has been better and as time goes on espicially ive been feeling less and less worried and anxiety yeah we have bad moments and sure i get out of hand when i cant speak to her one day, but we know "tomorrow will be better" and alot of times it is. Because sometimes things happen to us and well you get over it after a while and you feel better. But really what has helped me is to think about the good times youve had, everytime you have a bad thought. Also if you listen to sad music you might want to try listening to soothing techno, or anything relaxing if you feel sad. I mean even listening to a Dane Cook joke makes you feel better. If you learn to just do your best to be happy your mind will adapt and get use to it just like anything else we do its hard but believe me its worth it.

Trust me you dont want to be on medication unless you feel like you need to. Because really ive taken alot of medication before Lithium, i use to be on five a day, and it made everything slow. Untill i was off everything except Lithium, and then i decided that Lithium made me slow and didint really help me emotionally. Three months later ive been feeling better, sometimes its hard to control my anger but im starting to get better at controlling it and getting over things.

I hope this helps you Welshy.
 
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