Discussion What do you do to help handle/control your moodswings?

[lainduster]

What do you do to help handle/control your moodswings? How have they affected your life?

 

[shampoo sniffer]

I'm on so much medication that my moods are pretty much deadened.

I do suffer a lot with anxiety. When it is at its worst, I wrap myself in a blanket and lie in bed.

 

[getoutgirl]

I try to ride the waves as best I can. I usually get a couple okayish/good days followed by a couple bad/awful ones. It's a rhythm of the mind, proven to be there pretty much unrelated to my external circumstances.

As obvious as it might sound, it helped a lot to actually start seeing it as such. Instead of just seeing it as constantly falling into pits of despair, trying to get out of them in my "better" days, and then each fall just proving how broken, weak and helpless I was. I you don't see the sadness as a baseline or a drop, nor the okayishness as a should-be state one you should be strong enough to mantain, and you instead see the two as equal parts of the cycle, like moon phases or the ying and yang, waves that simply must come and go, to me at least that helps, it gets easier. Easier to take it easier on myself too. I don't dread the falls, I expect them, and expect to move through them.

That's all very buddhist and shit, in reality the bad days still suck and there is little way around that but through them :P They make mantaining motivation and keeping up with basically anything very hard. But I can try and rush things whenever I feel barely good enough to do so.
And all that is of course just for my particular case. I don't know what kind of mood swings you deal with, I hope they are not completely controlling your life, they might be there for a long time, they might not, but there are definetly ways to make them more manageable, be it meds or meditation or techniques or good people around you. So in any case I can only wish you good luck there and that you get easier times your way too. Big hugs <3

 

[lainduster]

I try to ride the waves as best I can. I usually get a couple okayish/good days followed by a couple bad/awful ones. It's a rhythm of the mind, proven to be there pretty much unrelated to my external circumstances.

As obvious as it might sound, it helped a lot to actually start seeing it as such. Instead of just seeing it as constantly falling into pits of despair, trying to get out of them in my "better" days, and then each fall just proving how broken, weak and helpless I was. I you don't see the sadness as a baseline or a drop, nor the okayishness as a should-be state one you should be strong enough to mantain, and you instead see the two as equal parts of the cycle, like moon phases or the ying and yang, waves that simply must come and go, to me at least that helps, it gets easier. Easier to take it easier on myself too. I don't dread the falls, I expect them, and expect to move through them.

That's all very buddhist and shit, in reality the bad days still suck and there is little way around that but through them :P They make mantaining motivation and keeping up with basically anything very hard. But I can try and rush things whenever I feel barely good enough to do so.
And all that is of course just for my particular case. I don't know what kind of mood swings you deal with, I hope they are not completely controlling your life, they might be there for a long time, they might not, but there are definetly ways to make them more manageable, be it meds or meditation or techniques or good people around you. So in any case I can only wish you good luck there and that you get easier times your way too. Big hugs <3

I find the "waves that come and go" very very interesting, I never really thought about it like that, also I relate to the part about maintaining anything a lot, it always seems like such an impossible task to build a habit out of anything and whenever I do it feels like I'm doing more harm than good. --- To be honest I was gonna write something more but I had to go do something and I completely forgot about what I was gonna say and such a short answers seems a little insulting for the effort you put in to yours so instead I want to say that I appreciate you commenting on so many posts and doing such a good job of giving advice and reassuring kind words to people on here, I always see you around and I find it very heartwaming to say the least. Thank you and I hope you're doing well <3

 

[getoutgirl]

I find the "waves that come and go" very very interesting, I never really thought about it like that, also I relate to the part about maintaining anything a lot, it always seems like such an impossible task to build a habit out of anything and whenever I do it feels like I'm doing more harm than good. --- To be honest I was gonna write something more but I had to go do something and I completely forgot about what I was gonna say and such a short answers seems a little insulting for the effort you put in to yours so instead I want to say that I appreciate you commenting on so many posts and doing such a good job of giving advice and reassuring kind words to people on here, I always see you around and I find it very heartwaming to say the least. Thank you and I hope you're doing well <3

awww thank you, that's real sweet. this made my night I'm gonna sleep like a baby now :>
U take care too, I'm glad you can be around and that you can find some comfort here, I think you deserve it. Hugs <33<3

 

[etherealgoddess]

What do you do to help handle/control your moodswings? How have they affected your life?

Inner child healing completely changed the game for me. Cured literally every single mental health issue I ever had. Then once it was done, it was so easy to go in and get rid of the limiting beliefs.

Also eating healthy, sleeping on time, and going outside.

 

[etherealgoddess]

I made a post about what I did. Check it out! It's in recovery.

 

[Lions303]

Honestly just a few deep breaths help so much, comes in handy for working with something that requires patience

 

[London2005]

I try to stay active, get a lot of sleep, watch movies and journal

 

[Grav]

I shut down and withdraw until it passes. It's playing chicken though because if I decide it's over before the mood climbs I'm out. My wife has started to pribe when I clamp up but it doesn't help much because I don't want it to get better but also cry out in my head foe someone to care, yep that kind of brain bs. I may look into the medical psychotropic treatments to cut away past junk that starts me on that path.

 

[Keridwen]

What do you do to help handle/control your moodswings? How have they affected your

Personally I struggled knowing what emotions were fueling my moodswings. I found looking at the "circle/chart of emotions" and recognising which one I was feeling, helped me figure out why I was feeling it, and how to stop/dampen it