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Daily moodswings - how is it for you?
Good morning everyone,
I'm newly diagnosed with bipolar and currently not on mood stabilisers. I'm trying to understand what are emotions all people feel and what is extreme.
No matter how brief the times are, in a normal day for me I experience everything from being hopeful, accepting, feeling loved to desperate, exhausted, in fear of my life, suicidal, helpless and hopeless, I feel anger all the way to rage against myself, the world, anything, I can get so deeply sad without remembering why, I feel disconnected and lonely but I also have times at work where I just function the way I used to and need to. Work seems to do me good as I have little time ruminating and constant demands from people - about subjects that do not scare me, situations where I can just rely on my analytical mind. As soon as that positive stimulation is over, off I go again. I don't work full time at the moment because I get too exhausted and spiral downwards.
Can anyone identify with a typical day like that? Is that what every person in the world experiences or is this what people mean when they call it extreme mood shifts. I do know that this makes me very tired.
I'm newly diagnosed with bipolar and currently not on mood stabilisers. I'm trying to understand what are emotions all people feel and what is extreme.
No matter how brief the times are, in a normal day for me I experience everything from being hopeful, accepting, feeling loved to desperate, exhausted, in fear of my life, suicidal, helpless and hopeless, I feel anger all the way to rage against myself, the world, anything, I can get so deeply sad without remembering why, I feel disconnected and lonely but I also have times at work where I just function the way I used to and need to. Work seems to do me good as I have little time ruminating and constant demands from people - about subjects that do not scare me, situations where I can just rely on my analytical mind. As soon as that positive stimulation is over, off I go again. I don't work full time at the moment because I get too exhausted and spiral downwards.
Can anyone identify with a typical day like that? Is that what every person in the world experiences or is this what people mean when they call it extreme mood shifts. I do know that this makes me very tired.
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