Mood swing

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Ok so for a while now i have been struggling with this. Since the starting of a new term in schooli have been going through the worst mood swings. One minute i was happy next minute i felt like life wasnt worth living. Other days i would be extremly happy, like the world was just filled with butterflies and unicorns.I thought i was just normal and i was going through my normal teenage hormones but today was the worst. I went to school like normal and then half way through the day i was just depressed and i couldn't even control. My friends kept asking me if i was ok and kept telling them yes cause i didnt want them to know i was sad. Is this normal

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  • Hamburger.Slim
    8 years ago

    She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, 'would not' happen.

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  • thegypsysailor
    8 years ago

    Manic/depressive or bipolar disorder, most likely. You might get some help from a good therapist.

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    • Ellenna
      8 years ago

      Thought you didn't believe in psychiatric labels?

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      • thegypsysailor
        8 years ago

        Uh, I don't believe that most of the alphabet "illnesses" are real, but certainly there are mental disorders.

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        • Ellenna
          8 years ago

          But aren't the alphabet names just shorthand for mental disorders? I'm not arguing they're not overdiagnosed and misdiagnosed, but they do exist. I find all these labels fairly useless anyway: they can be a very lazy way of describing oneself or another person rather than taking the trouble to be specific about what the problem is.

          On the other hand, I DO have PTSD, which I manage quite well most of the time.

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          • thegypsysailor
            8 years ago

            You've said everything I would have.
            As I see it, not so much just shorthand for mental disorders, but a huge database for incompetent mental health providers to use, saying "Hell, I don't know. But I make more money dispensing pills than I would actually working my ass off to help this patient, so..." and he/she throws a dart at the list of alphabet illnesses to decide which one to medicate for.
            Unfortunately the good, decent, caring mental health doctors seem to be the exception, not the rule. Kinda like cops, one might say.

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            • wigz
              8 years ago

              It IS shorthand regardless of what you 'think'. ASPD is antisocial personality disorder, for example...and guess what? There's no medication for that. Nor is there for BPD, OCD, OCPD, and countless others. Most disorders require CBT (omg another abbreviation!) and only some absolutely require medication.

              The vast majority in mental health services are not even legally capable of writing prescriptions so what are you even talking about?

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  • Ellenna
    8 years ago

    The worst thing you can do if you're depressed is deny it: your friends obviously care about you but you're fucking with their heads as well as your own if they pick up you're depressed and then you deny it.

    Is there a school counsellor or other trusted adult you can talk to about this as well as getting some support from the friends who are about you?

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