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Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon
I was pretty much like that when I was 20. Do you notice your mood change on it's own or do things that happen in your life trigger mood changes? I have low-grade depression most of the year compounded with chronic anxiety. Let him work on whAt he sees then work towards a dx of whatever.
You can get racing thoughts and looped obsessive thinking with anxiety which can switch moods rapidly. For instance I watched blackfish (this documentary was pretty triggering in hindsight) and became obsessed with sea world controversy. I couldn't even sleep well because I couldn't stop thinking about it and I kept rereading the same thing over and over in a kind of compulsion. Does this sound similar to anything you're experiencing?
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It's very relieving to sound that someone went through something similar.
I am not sure if they are always trigerred, but sometimes they are. Today I was browsing university courses and this change occured because I got anxious about the future. Had a very hard day because of it, my mood didn't get better till late evening. When I was in school and this happened I skipped classess. Sitting in a class was mentally very painful to me. I often reacted with agression in this state, but not any more (I think it's because of the teenage hormones). Almost failed because of the amount of hours I skipped.
However sometimes I wake up in a specific mood or the change has no clear trigger as far as I can tell, and is almost instantenous. I start getting intruted by a negative thought, I can't get it out of my head, it gets stronger and before I know it I feel fully depressed. It happens the other way around too.
I am familiar with obsesive loops. I know a few things that can trigger them and they also don't let me sleep at nights. They're quite rare for me, a few times each month I guess. Example: there were some things I wanted to buy and I had no budget for all of them. I obsessed for 2 days about which one should I get and which I should skip, making lists in my head and constantly changing them because it never seemed to be good enough, until it was suddenly gone and my head cleared up.
You know what I am seriously obsessed with ? With death. It's very sad for me. I can't get thoughts about it out. I started having those thoughts sometimes like 2 years ago, but now they're almost constant. Even when I feel good those thoughts tend to pop up randomly ruining my mood.