Mood Swings

Very few places provide a good healthy safe known reliable refuge for Christians,
let alone worldly un-Christians; but if you can find one, as written in Scripture, that will be the most help all the time, every day. As written - wherever you move to, or live, seek out those who are faithful , and meet frequently (or stay with) them.

Daily (yes, every day) fellowship is best help of all, with honest believers following Jesus who get together frequently to grow in Him as God gives growth.

Rare as this is, it is the best, and seems to be more and more uncommon/ hard to find.

Next, pray frequently, as Jesus instructed the disciples, and spend time with the heavenly Father talking to Him about everything (all the things ever posted on this forum, and not receiving help --- HE KNOWS PERFECTLY, and HE IS THE ONE WHO CAN HELP)

and READING HIS WORD and meditating on HIS WORD all day long and all night long (this takes time like any 'so-called' human discipline for crude example ) ....
i.e. grow daily in reading and meditating, spending TIME WITH THE CREATOR ALONE....

the best ever time spent for anyone ! better than a thousand meetings with a king or queen or anyone on earth ! MEET WITH THE CREATOR PRIVATELY in the prayer closet (even if while washing dishes..... which brings up something else --- do simple chores often, throughout the day.... turn over ALL THE PROBLEMS and CONCERNS to the Father,
"roll the burdens" OFF your own shoulders onto His - HE WANTS THEM and can handle them all, and Promises to in line with His Word.


On the other hand, how did we humans mess up so much ? Listening to voices that ARE NOT the GOOD SHEPHERD JESUS. So many voices - family , brothers, sisters, neighbors, parents, counselors, teachers, etc etc etc and any kind of voices re 'sales' or 'entertainment' , btw, is likely to be detrimental and bring one down like a bad blood sugar roller-coaster !

Then there is that too - blood sugar....... it is amazing how much it can depress anyone, and cause all kinds of troubles, including seizures ! So taking simple natural helps to stabilize the blood sugar might help stabilize the emotional roller-coasters also.

Not to mention msg, dairy, soda/ caffeine drinks, ice cream, anything sugary,
etc etc etc --- all of which need to be evaluated by someone / a health provider of some sort who is successful (not in money, but in results) , someone with the wisdom of experience as well as years of knowledge and training (by Yahweh hopefully! ) ....

Have you told your therapist how you're feeling?

Do you think this could be a mood disorder? Do you think you may have one?

Angeleyes7715 said:

Suddenly so depressed this evening. Feeling uncomfortable and just unhappy whereas a few hours ago after drinking coffee I felt excited and motivated. Now I feel like crying and it's been a pretty average day, I was off today so I don't have much of a reason to be sad. Suddenly it just feels like everything is hopeless and I want to die again. I'm so sick of always getting in this mood just feeling like I don't want to do anything but cry. I don't want to go to work or school tomorrow I have no desire to be around people or get up and do anything. I feel ugly and disgusting even though I know that's not true I feel so sluggish.

Click to expand...

Coffee is a stimulant. It will borrow energy from later in the day. Maybe coffee is causing, or aggravating, your problem. I stopped using caffeine many years ago. I won't even eat chocolate, because of the caffeine.

dreadnought said:

Coffee is a stimulant. It will borrow energy from later in the day. Maybe coffee is causing, or aggravating, your problem. I stopped using caffeine many years ago. I won't even eat chocolate, because of the caffeine.

Click to expand...

This is true. After I drink coffee it makes me jittery and anxious.

Hello Angeleyes, the advice to seek out your counsellor is appropriate. All of us can only be very superficial in our comments but its your counsellor who truly knows you, and can assist you to analyse your issues and prescribe therapies.

Angeleyes7715 said:

It's just frustrating because I can only see him when I see him and it's like I feel miserable nearly all the time

Click to expand...

What strategies are you using

Angeleyes7715 said:

Suddenly so depressed this evening. Feeling uncomfortable and just unhappy whereas a few hours ago after drinking coffee I felt excited and motivated. Now I feel like crying and it's been a pretty average day, I was off today so I don't have much of a reason to be sad. Suddenly it just feels like everything is hopeless and I want to die again. I'm so sick of always getting in this mood just feeling like I don't want to do anything but cry. I don't want to go to work or school tomorrow I have no desire to be around people or get up and do anything. I feel ugly and disgusting even though I know that's not true I feel so sluggish.

Click to expand...

As someone who suffers from a mood disorder i know very well what you are describing here. How many times a day does your mood swing if i may ask? i'm an ultra fast cycler when unwell, cycling every 10-15 minutes. Very confusing when that happens.

There is medications around that reduce the mood swings but unfortunately for me i was always down on them so i decided they were not for me. While anti-depressants send me manic. i take niacin (vitamin B3) to help combat the mood swings, and 5-hpt to balance my moods. This seems to be working reasonably fine at the moment.

To be on guard regarding your mood swinging is important so that you can adjust to your mind set because of the negativity of depression and try and keep that out. To build with good solid Scriptural truth is best to stay out of depression i found. The more we keep negative thoughts and feelings out the less intense the mood swings will become. Or at least it was like that in my life.

Do talk with your doctor about your swings and see if you an learn to be mindful of them so that you an guard yourself better against depressive thoughts and feelings.

Peace.