Confused

I am expereincing something today that I have never been through.

My emotions and mood keep changing anywhere between every 30 mins to 2 hours. I go from being happy to depressed to annoyed to irriatated to overwhelming urges of having to be in the same room as my husband to hyper to paranoid and so many others. Some things I have never felt before. I don't know what is wrong. I can't sit still, I feel like everything and everybody is in my bubble.

I'm confused, nervous, scared, and excited all at the same time!!!

HELP

No words of wisdom here....just hugs....hope it calms down!

You have numerous things going on Diagnosis wise . Maybe your recent marriage kind of knocked you sideways? Big life events have a tendancy of doing this. Maybe you need a medication tweek?

Welcome to PC

That is one of the problems. I am not currently on meds. I came off them in January because of a custody battle with my ex and I am trying to stay sane....no pun intended...until I can get back on something.

Things get different head wise everyday and it is starting to scare me

Can you ramp up your Coping skills? Increase a healthy lifestyle to the Max... Diet? Exercise? good sleep hygiene? Mindfulness? Meditation? Breathing exercises? Yoga? Journaling? A box of distractions you can grab?

Yeah I second Christina's suggestions .... see how they go .... if your symptoms still persist after a few days I'd suggest seeing your pdoc (dunno - you might need to consider some options with meds because the 'excited' part caught my eye - one day is not enough to go by; which is why I think you should monitor your mood state and emotional responses)

Hope that helps.

I am trying to make it till I get on insurance at work to go back and get on meds. I have felt myself trying to go manic if that makes sense. I do my best to stay busy with my two boys. We have done some sort of craft every night this week.

I will keep you updated on stuff.

For clarity when you say - I have felt myself trying to go manic if that makes sense are you referring to the fact that you may be heading into a hypo/manic episode based on your early warning sign symptoms? .... cos that's kind of what I was thinking .... and the fact that you say it's been busy/productive EVERY night this week .... well that's more than 1 day of 'excitement' - so just look out for any other of your precursor symptoms - dunno what to say - keep to as much of a sleeping pattern as you possibly can (if this is disrupted) ..... what strategies have you used in the past when you've noticed early warning signs, that have been useful?

I go through the same thing here and there......just the other day, in fact. One minute I was calm, the next I was ranting, then calm again, then ready to cry, then lucid and logical.....all within 15 minutes or so.

My p-doc told me to expect all sorts of stuff - he doesn't know exactly where I land on the spectrum just yet. BP can be complex and IMO, it's a tough one to nail down with specifics. Sometimes I'm stable for a month, then I rapid cycle, then I'm depressed for a few days, then I go back to being on top of my game and I think it's all gone away. I spoke to a good friend of mine a few days ago - he has a few personality disorders and some addictions. He told me it will never go away and come back at us in all sorts of ways. We just need to be mindful and work on things like meditation, sleep, good diet, and other good habits that keep us in balance.

Rock on, Sister Rainbow.

I know they are early warning signs yes. I havent been able to find anything that has been useful except giving someone my keys and wallet and me not leaving the house but I can't do that anymore because I have to go to work and take care of my kids. My sleep has been crazy this week. I get so tired but I try to go to bed and I lay there for hours trying to fall asleep. I have been getting maybe 4 hours a day if that when i am use to 8-9.

I don't know of any other strategies to try.

I found a 3 minute Blog here on PsychCentral.

Not sure how useful it will be, as one of the things you've indicated is your disrupted sleep.

And honestly? When I'm where you're at I can't "get 8/10 hours sleep per night" - so yeah, I guess it's a case of read through and see if there might be anything you can take away from this blog.

Not sure.

See what you make of it.

Strategies for Reducing Signs of Mania in Bipolar Disorder | World of Psychology