Bipolar mood swings and all mental health moods swings have many of the same characteristics. Experts define mood swings related to mental disorder as a “significant dysfunction in a person’s thinking, emotional control, and behavior.”
The point where you “swing from one emotion to the next, some times as fast as the time it take to swing up and back on a swing set. Hot and cold, depressed and manic or mad at the world and loving every thing the next moment.
These conditions as you may know first hand, like me, in my Mental Health Humor Bipolar Moods Swing cartoon…often disrupts a person’s life. Their “ability to relate to others” in a non-highest-emotional-state or ready to snap back at you with a verminous bite or to crumble in sorrow. It’s not normal to have to deal with the daily, hourly, minutely and down to the second demands of mood swings and what they put on the quality of life. Not when we live in a world where mental illness can be treated. What do we need to do first?
What is Needed to Control Mood Swings?
- Educating ourselves about our illness.
- Tracking our triggers that cause our moods – people ~ food ~ exercise ~ meds ~ supplements.
- Talking about our mood without the word “you” – “you always|you never|you don’t” instead use the word “I”…I feel (Don’t add YOU here.)”
- Seeking professional help – mental illness can be treated – Don’t suffer in silence.
- SLEEP – Impacts our body – and our mind.
- YOU need YOU to control your moods – take responsibility for it and act.