[QUOTE=CANDC;4227080]Velouria,
Perhaps a look at the meaning of dysphoria might show a meaning different than you thought.
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An unpleasant mood caused by normal life events, such as grief, or psychiatric disturbances such as mood or anxiety disorders.
Dysphoria | Encyclopedia of Psychology
Example: Your patient’s parents and teachers remark that she has been unusually tense and whiny over recent weeks.
People I know go into mania and stay up half the night, then in exhaustion they get depressed. Maybe it is time to tell your pdoc about this pattern and ask what meds can balance this out.
Can someone control their emotions?
This article talks about managing emotions
How to Manage Emotions More Effectively | World of Psychology
I have known people that severed the nerves to avoid a particular pain and the false pain continued after the nerves were severed. Makes me look more and more to the mind as the inventor of these situations.
A therapist could really help give a structure to your recovery.
Thank you for sharing so much.
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Ah -- I meant it in the sense of
dysphoric mania. I should have been more specific. Thank you!
And thank you very much for the article on managing emotions, I will take a look at it.
It's very hard to not get consumed by my emotions. They just ignite, and I feel like I'm the wick, and I just smolder and burn.
I used to suppress my feelings a lot. The result, I think, was alcohol and drug abuse that caused me to almost lose my job. Now I'm sober but...
Nope, never was able to control my feelings.