Wild mood swings

Anyone ever feel just so elated for a spell and then just out of the blue someone says something to you and it triggers you being angry/depressed about everything and angry at everyone and you don't know for how long you will feel this way.
I just feel so angry and yet sad at the same time and I was feeling so good (almost euphoric) for a few weeks now.

My moods have been simlair to yours... I tried to deck my boyfriend.I don't wanna stay in, I don't wanna go out... I laugh, I cry, I blow up and then repent... I hate this. I feel like I'm strung up between the poles, and I'm so aggrivated.

Yes, it can be frustrating and scary. I'm sorry to hear you're experiencing that sort of crash. About the only thing I can suggest is a visit to a pdoc if available.

Take care

Yes...this is a really good description of what I experience...you are definately not alone...

I sometimes think it is mixed and other times I think it is depression with my emotional intensity (BPD) not sure which...

yes I feel like that more and more. I can just be sitting there perfectly fine and then I get sort of a wave of real low feelings and just burst into tears.

I hear you. Jin xx

I hear ya, loud and clear. It stinks big time, I just had a major episode myself. I called my pdoc and had a tweak in my meds hopefuly it helps. Try calling the doc and maybe he/she can help. Wish you the best and hang in there---Jen

My mood swings are always this way. I am either in an irritable, raging, violent mood where every thing and every one sets me off with no ryme or reason or I am depressed. I am never just "normal" I would so love to be just happy and normal.

Take Care
Leslie

I know the feeling I also experience the same thing too, like I could be having a good day, joking around with my little sister, and moments later I'll start feeling very irratable and depressed and I'll just snap and start being rude towards others and my little sis.

Jeez yes!
I just joined today.
I have never sought any help but that's just how I am. The life and soul of the party one minute and feeling like I want to start walking into the sea, a worthless burden to all, the next minute. Sometimes these things last hours days or months but never seem to level out. I thought I was the only one who felt this way.

I feel exactly the same way. I can be perfectly happy and then all of the sudden I get, really, really angry, and I don't even know why sometimes, then change back, or be sad for no reason. Some days I wake up happy, other days depressed. I do okay for a while and then my medicine has to be titrated, like this week, and then I have periods of doing okay. I was diagnosed in January, so hopefully I will get on the right combination of meds/doses.

Before I was diagnosed, I thought I was just a freak. I had seen so many therapists and psychiatrists and they all said it was depression and anxiety, even though I had described these symptoms to them. I didn't realize there others like me out there, and I wasn't a "freak."

My new term for these type of severe mood swings are the SeeSaw Plunge. I can be enjoying the day which is rare and feel on top of the world so to speak, but never that high, and then something happens and someone says the wrong thing and I snap their heads off. I become so irritable and it comes from anger in me. On the flip side, if I'm in the depressed state and this happens I cry my eyes out and become so numb inside. It happens regularly enough now so I am trying to recognize the symptoms so I can call my pdoc. Just a few days ago this started happening and I called him so he increased two meds dose, which he was working on doing anyway. It helped for the anger part, but the depression is still hanging in.

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't ever think that I have felt normal in a long time, no periods of stability long enough to notice any difference. It just jumps from hypomania, to depression and sometimes goes into mania. Sometimes it happens every few weeks, but then other times it is every other day or so. It confuses me and makes me more angry with my illness, the fact that my meds are working right yet after almost two years of being diagnosed. Now I'm debating my mind whether I did not right thing and applied for disability. My best friend said that it's probably the worst thing I could do for the long term. It doesn't pay much and it does take forever, I know it's going on one year now since I was denied twice and now awaiting an appeal hearing with the judge. Should I attempt to work partime or just accept the fact that I am not stable and cannot work or perform like I did before? All these conflicts in my head only make me feel more like a failure and depressed. I get depressed staying home so much, but I don't know anywhere that I would Iike to go to have some fun except for places that I shouldn't go.

Oh well, see what I mean about the rollercoaster is always running in my brain and never shuts down for repair.

oh yeah, the sudden swings from fine to a mixed blow-out, but for me it's almost always in terms of hrs. or a day, or a few.

i never know when it's going to happen, one way or another. but very rare with the euphoria. it's a dysphoric hypomania i get.

It's frustrating to go from enjoying an activity to feeling numb or depressed or angry.

how do you know if you are bipolar? there are so many 'mental illnesses" My doctor made me take a test that said i wasnt bi polar, however something just isnt right. I am constantly swinging between moods. I dont have those grandure thoughts, but sometimes i have hopeful thoughts about ways to improve my life. then i start thinking about the difficulties and up depressed again. medication has not helped, and that further depresses me, because if it isnt chemical, then the heck else am i supposed to do?
i hate being me