[ChristySpirals]

When I wake up I feel semi normal. Thoughts aren't racing as bad, less irritable, body is mellow. Then as the day goes on it gets worse and worse. Cant focus, easily distractable, easily go from 0 to ***** in a second. Blah blah you know the rest. Any one else experience this?

[BNLsMOM]

Yes, I totally understand what you mean. It seems that whatever mood I am in is less in the morning and more as the day goes on. Right now, I am going nuts with a mixed state and I don't even want to know what I will feel like in 6 hours.

[Victoria'smom]

Yep, I'll wake up turn to my husband and go sorry if I'm an @ss today their's caffeine in my veins. So we try to do anything we have to before things get to bad.

[HelpppMeeeOuttt]

YES! This is exactly what has kept me from making an appointment with a therapist until now. I wake up most mornings feeling pretty normal, and think that I don't need professional help. But as the day progresses I start to feel worse and worse and my symptoms become more prominent, until finally at night I feel certain that I do need a therapist. But by then it's too late to call and make an appointments so I say 'I'll do it in the morning' which of course doesn't happen because of course I feel okay in the morning and then the whole thing repeats itself.

Try reading about circadium rhythms--that may help to explain why you feel as you do as time progresses.

For me, it was changes in the diet and adding Vitamin C in grams, not milligrams, that brought the calm.

Genetic

[ChristySpirals]

I read up on it a lil genetic. Maybe you can help me understand. So it says that it happens regardless of stimuli, so if you should behave accordingly to what you personal experience. Say there is a change in routine, do you think you would become more irritated because of the extra stimuli? Example, a annoying person spent the night and I was extremely irritable in the morning. Or say I am doing something and am interrupted in my "calm time of day", and I get annoyed or irritated, would that still consist of this daily internal regime?

It is consistent it says and I can say I have always been more of a morning person, so this does sound a little like me

Originally Posted by ChristySpirals

I read up on it a lil genetic. Maybe you can help me understand. So it says that it happens regardless of stimuli, so if you should behave accordingly to what you personal experience. Say there is a change in routine, do you think you would become more irritated because of the extra stimuli? Example, a annoying person spent the night and I was extremely irritable in the morning. Or say I am doing something and am interrupted in my "calm time of day", and I get annoyed or irritated, would that still consist of this daily internal regime?

It is consistent it says and I can say I have always been more of a morning person, so this does sound a little like me

I would say that it is probable that the change in routine as well as
the annoying overnight guest had a strong influence on the shfiting of your moods, but I'm not an expert on the subject.

I take the circadium rhythm thing to mean that on average this is what
it's like in circadium rhythms. Things that change a routine strikingly will alter the mood, especially if one is as sensitive as bipolar folks are. Stress is a huge factor in instability of moods.

Hope you're feeling better. If not, try squeezing a lemon into a glass of ice cold water and drinking a glassful a couple of times a day. Lemon has the ability to calm emotions because it's one of the most alkalining foods we can digest. Avoid caffeine and alcohol permanently in your diet. They both make bipolar illness worse for people sensitive to them.

Take care.

Genetic

[faerie_moon_x]

I know as an example of my natural rhythm, I'm a night person. My sleep cycle, when left to my own devices is from about 2 a.m. to 11 a.m. When I was a young adult, that was the schedule I kept. All afternoon classes. Even when I became a mom for the first time, that was my schedule. My baby (who is now 10,) was also on that scheule. Now he's not.

I've been working the 8-5 job for 5 years now. For five years I've been trying to set myself on the "get up at 6, go to bed at 9" schedule. I think it has a lot to do with why I can't rest when I sleep. I wake up exhausted. I start to get creative and awake at about 8 p.m, which would be "evening" to my cycle. I think it has a huge effect on me. But the world doesn't work in such a way that we accomidate everyone's rhythm. If you don't have the 'normal' rhythm, oh well, too bad.

Ever had any interest in having a sleep apnea test, dark heart? When I learned that
I needed more REM sleep, I charged right into it, and it is wonderful for restful sleep.

It takes a little while, however, to get full benefits--like taking some meds, I think.

Hope your sleep improves for you.

Genetic

[Trippin2.0]

I'm having HUGE trouble adjusting my rythm. My sleep schedule has been between 00:00 and 6:00 since 1999. With this new job and hectic training schedule, I'm rarely done with homework before midnight anyway, and being up at 4:30am is killing me slowly... Luckily my mood's still stable, but I'd like to keep it that way... 00:45 atm...