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Why am I having these mood swings?
18/f
For the past 5 months I've had really bad anxiety and I think I'm depressed. I've gotten back into cutting but I find my mood swings weird. I can go from being empty and distant to super happy to wanting to cry in just the period of a day at school. And I'm generally a shy person, especially around teachers but then I get days where I'm just over the top happy and I'm confident and actually speak quite alot in front of them and then there's days where when I try answer something in class you can abrely even hear me. And I've become pretty affectionate lately. And I don't really sleep much, I'll put my phone off at like 10:30pm and at 3 I'm still awake my mind doesn't switch off and I don't get tired at night. I just don't get what is going on. I go from nights where i just want to die to days where I'm on top of the world.
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Another vote for you to see your Dr. For all you know, it could be a couple different things. Maybe you suffer insomnia with not being able to sleep at night. If a Dr finds you have this, there are many natural/homeopathic remedies at health food stores that can help.
If you feel anxious and depressed now but were not in the past, it could be two things with one being that if a person genetically has depression that will appear, it tends to do that during the teen years. Thats what happened with my eldest child.
The second since you mention anxiety present as well is that you are out of HS and facing the adult world and finding yourself quite overwhelmed and anxious not knowing how well you will do or what decisions to make. That type of concern is enough to bring on anxiety and temporary depression. Tell your Dr. and he/she can recommend you to a professional in the area of mental health. Even if you end up not having a mental illness like bi polar with the mood swings up and down so quickly, if its just worry about your future, then you need to learn ways to mentally cope with life, and watch to make sure you don't have distorted thoughts. I once asked a retired counselor friend about a family member stating it sounded like a certain illness to me. She said that many mental health illnesses have an overwhelming amount of the same symptoms with sometimes only one if two symptoms to differentiate one from the other so it is therefore futile for the average person like you or me to self diagnose. So please do go see your Dr.
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I am not a doctor so I cannot make a diagnoses. What I can do is the following:
1. Have your family doctor give you a complete physical with depression screening. This rules out any organic cause for the way your feeling.
2. Based on the symptoms you describe I am also going to suggest you find a Board Certified Psychiatrist. The symptoms you described are among those that would indicate depression; possibly Manic Depression also known as Bipolar disorder.
Having suffered clinical depression myself I can tell you that anxiety and depression go hand in hand . Mood swing are also part of the illness and depending on how severe the swings are will affect the diagnoses.
It is important that you have a complete physical as there are some conditions that are causing you problem. Since there are organic conditions the psychiatrist will want you to get a physical.
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