[Love&Toil]

I'm struggling right now and out of practice. I think my GAD is flaring up, I'm anxious and insecure, neurotic. Too much stress and pressure, too busy. I know this will pass. I'm just out of practice and I'm not exercising, eating too much sweets.

I wonder if this is a swing/mixed...I'm feeling sad, down, neurotic, energetically beating myself up, anxious, chest feeling tight, heart pounding. Sigh. This will pass.

This feels like hell though.

ETA - OMG I'm going through ovulation right now so this is my PMDD too. That makes a lot of sense!

[sylo]

Originally Posted by Love&Toil

I'm struggling right now and out of practice. I think my GAD is flaring up, I'm anxious and insecure, neurotic. Too much stress and pressure, too busy. I know this will pass. I'm just out of practice and I'm not exercising, eating too much sweets.

I wonder if this is a swing/mixed...I'm feeling sad, down, neurotic, energetically beating myself up, anxious, chest feeling tight, heart pounding. Sigh. This will pass.

This feels like hell though.

ETA - OMG I'm going through ovulation right now so this is my PMDD too. That makes a lot of sense!

I hope it will pass soon,,,

[Parks]

Originally Posted by Love&Toil

I'm struggling right now and out of practice. I think my GAD is flaring up, I'm anxious and insecure, neurotic. Too much stress and pressure, too busy. I know this will pass. I'm just out of practice and I'm not exercising, eating too much sweets.

I wonder if this is a swing/mixed...I'm feeling sad, down, neurotic, energetically beating myself up, anxious, chest feeling tight, heart pounding. Sigh. This will pass.

This feels like hell though.

ETA - OMG I'm going through ovulation right now so this is my PMDD too. That makes a lot of sense!

I hope you feel better real soon. Your not by yourself with the anxious feelings, that is for sure.

[Mountainbard]

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I wonder if this is a swing/mixed...I'm feeling sad, down, neurotic, energetically beating myself up, anxious, chest feeling tight, heart pounding. Sigh.
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Hi Love & Toil, I've not experienced mixed states myself, or if I have they've been mild and brief. It sounds like the GAD has got you, because of the stress and lack of exercise and poor eating. But if I were you I'd take that list of symptoms above and go to your pdoc with it. It's an excellent list of what's happening with you, and that's what they need to help them Dx/treat. In any case I wish you luck and hope you feel better soon.

[Love&Toil]

Thanks. It's very difficult to get a pdoc where I live and mine has let me know she doesn't have much available time. I guess that's her prob, I should just advocate for myself. I probably need to increase my prozac as that helps my anxiety. But it also affects my memory. Maybe I should try more self care stuff first before upping meds. If it doesn't get better I will go to her. Thanks guys!

[Love&Toil]

I'm struggling today. Feeling unenthused, down, these darker shorter days are starting to get to me. This evening I let the kids push my buttons and I have rage. Got myself away from them so I can calm down. Argh. I wish my ADs could be higher again but pdoc seems to think me having rage can be because of my ADs and my mood stabilizer not being high enough. If the abilify is higher I feel excruciatingly bored and flat. Do I need to pathologize everything? Why can't a reaction just be a normal reaction? Well I have a mood disorder, that's why. Sometimes it's hard to know what's normal and what's not. I hate having bad moods though, they can be quite painful. Thanks for listening.

[Disorder7]

I know that feeling: why can't I just have a bad mood like everyone else?!

[~Christina]

Regardless of where we are on the Bipolar shyt O meter. We can indeed just be in a bad mood that has nothing to do with Bipolar. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.

Do you take Vitamin D daily ? Shorter days and less sun will usually drop your D levels which can increase depression.

I hope your feeling better very soon