Mood swings.

[CAS]

Anyone else suffer from them? I can be fine one day/hour and in a total state of anger/sadness the next. Talk about bloody unpredictable. My parents say it's like living on a rollercoaster.

Regards, Craig.

 

[Terminus]

Yeah, I can definately relate. Often depression and anxiety just sneaks up on me and hits me right in the face. Most of the time for no apparent reason. It can be quite hard to deal with, but I try to appreciate the good periods and think that it's better than being miserable all the time.

 

[samba101]

No but I used to be quite emotional.

 

[Lonesome Crow]

No...I only get roller coaters after something shocking....

I did suffer from tpsd/shellshock from living with a person that was manic depressive.
Some people term that as BI polar today.

 

[Nyktimos]

Anyone else suffer from them? I can be fine one day/hour and in a total state of anger/sadness the next. Talk about bloody unpredictable.

Totally. I swing from a sort of wan acceptance of everything being pointless and leading nowhere to a deep, misanthropic, devestating misery with a desire for suicide and back again within the course of an hour. I'm sick of it. I can't get anything done because just when I feel I'm getting somewhere my will and energy vanish.

 

[ledchick]

[yes Craig,
I live on the worlds largests and most astounding rollercosters, even on drugs to make it not so bad.
I am bi polar and it is the ride of a lifetime. If the could make a rollercoaster that mimiced what I go through in one day, well they would either make ALOT of money or it would be a one ride only then never get back on it again. I hate it and it appears I will be on it forever, as Ben Harper says " The drugs dont work"
I cycle rapidly and can be in one mood one minute and on the other side of the scale the next it sucks and it is great......what can I say!

 

[Unacceptance]

Mood swings, emotional days in the park.
Mood Swings, the light is but a shade of the dark...

Sorry this just reminded me of a C-Rayz Walz song

 

[wolfshadow]

Yes, yes and yes. Although I find that once I settle into a negative mood, I find it difficult to break.

 

[Nyktimos]

Mine seem to be getting worse. Sunday, for some reason (none is ever needed) I was in a fairly good mood and positive frame of mind most of the day. Then suddenly, Sunday night, I had an almighty come down. It lasted well into the next morning. I couldn't sleep, even though I was desperately tired. I couldn't stop thinking about all the stuff that makes me miserable, no matter how I tried to distract myself. I spent the night downstairs, with terrible and suicidal thoughts going through my head. At one point I rolled up in a ball clutching my face, and there is still a bruise on my forehead from the tip of one of my fingers. It's the worst I've been. I don't ever want to feel like it again, but I know I have no control over it. It comes out of nowhere.

 

[Lonesome Crow]

Mine seem to be getting worse. Sunday, for some reason (none is ever needed) I was in a fairly good mood and positive frame of mind most of the day. Then suddenly, Sunday night, I had an almighty come down. It lasted well into the next morning. I couldn't sleep, even though I was desperately tired. I couldn't stop thinking about all the stuff that makes me miserable, no matter how I tried to distract myself. I spent the night downstairs, with terrible and suicidal thoughts going through my head. At one point I rolled up in a ball clutching my face, and there is still a bruise on my forehead from the tip of one of my fingers. It's the worst I've been. I don't ever want to feel like it again, but I know I have no control over it. It comes out of nowhere.

I went through that last friday night. It didn't come out of nowhere
though. It was purposely done in a support gorup setting.
It retriggered a lot of mental and emotions I'd rather not deal with.
The thoughts and images wern't exaclty ramdom..however the
sequence they came into my consious were random.

I felt adgitate of the entired matter. I couldn't sleep
so i didn't. In stead of fighting what I was feeling I simply
rolled with it..I accepted. I wrote about it. I felt a little
bit better that next day.

A friend came over an inveted me to go a casino which
I rather not, on Sunday. However I went...just go get away.
I needed to get away if only just for a little while. It was okay
only for a little while...Then i felt entirely irratate with what
I was doing. I hated being there even if i didn't have to pay for it.
I came home...I felt a little bad...then just took some asprine
and went to bed becuase I had a headache.

I got up yesterday. I started reading and writing again.
I felt better about myself. I was making decisions and
doing something that was positive to my life.

I made a mistake of going to the casino. I hate that place.
I hate what gambling had done to my life.

By the end of the day I was feeling much better. I went to
bed and slept like a baby last night.

I woke up today feeling good.
I read some more books while drinking my coffee.
Then I played my guitar for an hour.
I just got back from riding my bike 5 miles.
Now I'm going swimming.

My sponsor called me this morning....He was tripping.. having his mood swings...irratible and discontent.
We just talk..or he did...just to mellow him out .lol

 

[Nyktimos]

I went through that last friday night. It didn't come out of nowhere
though. It was purposely done in a support gorup setting.
It retriggered a lot of mental and emotions I'd rather not deal with.
The thoughts and images wern't exaclty ramdom..however the
sequence they came into my consious were random.

I felt adgitate of the entired matter. I couldn't sleep
so i didn't. In stead of fighting what I was feeling I simply
rolled with it..I accepted. I wrote about it. I felt a little
bit better that next day.

A friend came over an inveted me to go a casino which
I rather not, on Sunday. However I went...just go get away.
I needed to get away if only just for a little while. It was okay
only for a little while...Then i felt entirely irratate with what
I was doing. I hated being there even if i didn't have to pay for it.
I came home...I felt a little bad...then just took some asprine
and went to bed becuase I had a headache.

I got up yesterday. I started reading and writing again.
I felt better about myself. I was making decisions and
doing something that was positive to my life.

I made a mistake of going to the casino. I hate that place.
I hate what gambling had done to my life.

By the end of the day I was feeling much better. I went to
bed and slept like a baby last night.

I woke up today feeling good.
I read some more books while drinking my coffee.
Then I played my guitar for an hour.
I just got back from riding my bike 5 miles.
Now I'm going swimming.

My sponsor called me this morning....He was tripping.. having his mood swings...irratible and discontent.
We just talk..or he did...just to mellow him out .lol

I'm glad for you that you're able to turn things positive. You've been through some pretty horrible honeysuckle, judging from your posts. I'm just left with this terrible fear of being in a good mood, because I know I'll pay for it later.

 

[wolfshadow]

Mine seem to be getting worse. Sunday, for some reason (none is ever needed) I was in a fairly good mood and positive frame of mind most of the day. Then suddenly, Sunday night, I had an almighty come down. It lasted well into the next morning. I couldn't sleep, even though I was desperately tired. I couldn't stop thinking about all the stuff that makes me miserable, no matter how I tried to distract myself. I spent the night downstairs, with terrible and suicidal thoughts going through my head. At one point I rolled up in a ball clutching my face, and there is still a bruise on my forehead from the tip of one of my fingers. It's the worst I've been. I don't ever want to feel like it again, but I know I have no control over it. It comes out of nowhere.

That sounds uncannily similar to how I've been feeling for the past five or so years. Recently I've been taking steps to address and monitor my psycological condition, the most critical item on the agenda was crippling anxiety but in due course, I'll be taking advice on how to manage my depression too.
I've got this uneasy feeling that after all the facts and figures have been added together, they're going to conclude that I'm Bi-polar. To be honest it's the only way that I can rationalise my mood switches. Everyone has problems, some far worse than mine, so accordingly I quite can't account for why the bad things in my life seem to overwhelm me so profoundly and so abruptly.
It does my head in a bit too because whilst I would hesitate to proclaim that I am the salt of the earth, I don't think that I'm such a bad sort. The trouble is, when people see you at your very worst, it can often be very difficult for them to reconcile that image with someone worth knowing.

 

[Chilly man]

I understand exactly. My mood can go from good to bad in less than a heartbeat for absolutely no reason at all. My doctor says it's a chemical imbalance. Another problem is that I can be in a wonderful mood but if someone says the least bad thing to me I'm actually heartbroken and go into a deep depression. I have no self-esteem but either whine to get attention or try to put up a brave front acting happy when I am sad.

 

[Nyktimos]

I've got this uneasy feeling that after all the facts and figures have been added together, they're going to conclude that I'm Bi-polar. To be honest it's the only way that I can rationalise my mood switches. Everyone has problems, some far worse than mine, so accordingly I quite can't account for why the bad things in my life seem to overwhelm me so profoundly and so abruptly.
It does my head in a bit too because whilst I would hesitate to proclaim that I am the salt of the earth, I don't think that I'm such a bad sort. The trouble is, when people see you at your very worst, it can often be very difficult for them to reconcile that image with someone worth knowing.

I also have this horrible feeling that the bi-polar result will come out of any visits to the doctor I make. I feel so pathetic. I read the posts of people like Lonesomecrow and several others on this forum, and I think these people have dealt with some really terrible stuff. I can't even cope with my relatively easy, though totally pointless, existance.