How often does it happen for your mood to change without a reason? What questions do you ask yourself to try to find that reason?
How often does it happen for your mood to change without a reason? What questions do you ask yourself to try to find that reason?
I’d associate this with “waking up on the wrong side of the bed”. No idea why I’m grumpy, I just know that for some reason I am.
I’ve become pretty attuned to my moods and emotions. The faster I can pinpoint them, the easier it is for me to sit in them and do my best to change them. Whether it’s eating a piece of chocolate to try and change my mood with an outside factor that makes me happy or doing some mini brainstorming to figure out what’s driving the mood, I feel that I have a choice to either be crabby or get out of it.
If those ideas don’t work, I try to do something nice for someone else. That allows me to fully step outside of myself and do a good deed which almost always changes my mood for the better.
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And this is me auto assuming it’s a negative feeling. Lol! If it’s a positive mood, then I don’t question it at all!
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Very often. I ask myself what I thought of before it happened….because thoughts usually trigger emotions…
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I have contributed mood changes to environment and circumstances. sleep and pain levels are also major contributing factors.
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Me too! I’d like to be in a place where my mood is strong enough not to be influenced by circumstance and environment.
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I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder caused by a chemical imbalance, plus menopause. My mood swings are off the charts these days. I have learned to cope with my anxiety when it acts up. I just remind myself that it’s anxiety and not some other illness or whatever.
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Well I’m a woman and these mood changes tend to happen when hormones are out of control. It tends to coincide with “that time of the month”
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I was having a bad week, however nothing was really wrong and then one day all became good…I really couldn’t discern why I felt happy suddenly…But yeah, now may be I know what was the reason behind it…
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frequently, which is countless. Thoughts make u-turn without any specific reason.
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Me too, and I’m really working hard to be reasonable with my thoughts processes and realise when those u-turns are occurring
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Just listen to your guts which will show you a right direction.
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Yep, over the past 2 weeks I have been trying to focus on what my intuition is telling me. I think it’s really important 🙂
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Then you are the winner. I am glad that you start listening to your intuition. Keep it up. God bless you.
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There are always reasons but you gotta wait to discover them I find.
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Being bi-polar, sometimes it’s just a chemical shift that I can’t really do much about. I look at what has shifted – have I had some kind of steroid recently? That is pretty much guaranteed to make me a negative person. Has there been something that has been weighing on my that I have done nothing about, and it has reached a tipping point? Is it something I can control? Sometimes it’s a matter of saying “Look, I’m seeing this response, or behavior. AM I feeling out of control? ” That’s where post it notes and lists help minimize stress. If I’m feeling good, I look at why, so I can recreate that feeling at another time.
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Strange this question comes up today because I woke up extremely depressed. I was fine when I went to bed though. I think my dreams have a lot to do with my moods. Having bipolar disorder contributes to my moods as well.
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I’m pretty reactive to the things around. I’m also cusp of Gemini, so I find that my mood changes at the drop of a hat. I tend to not question things. I simply acknowledge my feelings and let them go.
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When I finally catch the sudden mood change, I try to think of what fueled the change. How did I come to be in this new mental space? Introspection and trying to figure out why I went one direction or another for one reason or another.
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Mostly in the moments in which my hormones dominate my life 🙂 Otherwise there’s always a reason (or a thought) behind them…
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With Bipolar I’m on mood stabelizers. Got my answer 😉
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