Is it normal that my mood can be blissful one day & depressed the next?

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I've just reached the 25 year marker and have been making big shifts in my life but for the past 6 months or so have had big bouts of happiness coupled with massive depression. Sometimes I'll have a few days of one or the other. Other times it's day to day or even hour to hour. Does anyone else experience this or have strategies for making my happy days overwhelm the sad ones?

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Based on 56 votes (45 yes)
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  • willysilly
    8 years ago

    You must smoke crack like I do.

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  • andromedarose16
    11 years ago

    Yes. I have been diagonsed with atypical depression. It is diagnosed like that because at points, I am able to feel something other than sadness, loneliness, ect. Some days I am okay, and feel acxomplished and happy. Other days, I feel like shit and I have overwhelming sadness.

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  • peachykeen
    11 years ago

    so how does everyone cope? medication? I've just begun going to a therapist and think that may be the right option for me but would love be able to do it on my own.

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    • andromedarose16
      11 years ago

      Therapists help. Also a lot of exercise. On off days I go workout.. working out releases endorphines which stimulates a happy, accomplished feeling.

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  • DarkBlue
    11 years ago

    story of my life..

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    Yep everyone does it

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  • LordHawHaw
    11 years ago

    Normal according to me, because I have the same. One day I feel the king of the world and the other day I feel very depressed.
    Last friday I woke up very happy but in the afternoon I felt horrible and then in the evening I was incredibly happy again.

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  • themuffinman
    11 years ago

    Bipolar? There's treatment for that.

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  • precious.prism
    11 years ago

    Dude, totally!

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  • GuessWho
    11 years ago

    No.
    I gave up my emotions long ago.
    Happiness, Depression, It's all the same to me.

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  • Short4Words
    11 years ago

    Do you find that you don't create enough happiness on your own?

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    • peachykeen
      11 years ago

      I know that there are things I should/could do but many times I'm so scared to even get up to do any of them that I don't. It's so debilitating I can't even describe.

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      • Short4Words
        11 years ago

        What are you scared of?

        I understand not having the will, but you shouldn't be scared to move forward.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Considering all the changes you're going through yes. Six months is getting up there though. If it doesn't get any better I'd consider getting some help or talking to someone. :)

    I have depression. I can tell when my moods about to plummet. It's a horrible feeling knowing your happiness is about to be taken from you and you can't do anything about it and you didn't do anything to cause it. I can't help you. Some days I don't even get up. I hold my feelings in, always have. Not a good thing to do by the way. Once in a while I break. Alll those feelings and bad memories come to me at once and I am literally hunched over holding my chest in pain crying.

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