Mood Swings

Szer

I have been having these mood swings over the last 5 days or so. For example Sunday I felt like absolute crap, I felt very demotivated with my academic work, detached from the world and isolated. That night I thought about things and told myself to cheer up and I felt good about going to sleep. I woke up on Monday and felt awesome. I was ready to take on the world and was remembered of the fact that I was on my way to achieve my goals. I was very talkative and happy about chatting to people. Come today I feel like crap again. I didn't really make any effort to talk to people, I couldn't concentrate at all in the library.

Humans display large spectrum of emotions, so I realize that feeling bad every once in a while is by far not the end of the world. It had just been bothering me that in the last few days I have been swinging between two extremes. I attend a very, very competitive higher education course and it is difficult to keep eyes on the long term goal sometimes. The right here and right now can seem crushing. Furthermore there is a bit of a girl issue that keeps troubling me but it is nothing that I can solve right now. I have gone though similar episodes before.

Do you guys get mood swings like this? How do you deal with them?

4rch3nemy

When I have mood swings I tend to blame what I'm putting in my body or doing to my body. Eating healthy, getting enough sleep, and a little bit of exercise (seriously, 15 mins a day and you can feel GREAT) go a long way to soothing a sore mind or setting myself back on track.

I used to be depressive and when I started thinking about my body and how I mistreated it, I made changes and stopped being depressed. Of course, this is just an anecdotal view. Good luck, mate!

Capt Howdy

Are you setting aside fun time for yourself?