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Help Wanted
by RubySue, Mar 17, 2008 09:37AM
I am looking for some advice, for many years I have suffered severe mood swings and they are affecting my life in a big, detrimental way. I am now 27 years old and realise that I cannot carry on like this. My moods are irrational, unpredictable and without reason. One minute I am happy and smiling and everything is ok and the next moment I am feeling angry and resentful and I explode, there is no explanation for my anger, its like I know I am being unreasonable but cannot stop myself and the tiniest of things set me off. I have lost uncountable friends, boyfriends and pushed many family members away from me through these moods. I am a very alone person.
I am not suicidal, though I do have black moments when I am very down on myself and have thought about how better things would be if I wasn’t here, but I would genuinely never consider taking my own life seriously. I moved to another country a year ago and was ok for a while, but the last few months the moods have been coming back with force, I feel like I am cracking up, and I am now frightened that I am going to lose the new friends, lifestyle, job I have made for myself. I have had some unhappiness in my life, but its no excuse for the way I behave, I literally feel like a crazy person, its like I have two sides to me and I never know which one is going to come out.
When I was living in the UK I built up the courage to see my doctor, but she refused to help me as I got emotional when I was trying to explain how the moods were affecting my life and she claimed I was suicidal (which I wasn’t I genuinely did want some help)
Does anybody have any advice or thoughts?
I am not suicidal, though I do have black moments when I am very down on myself and have thought about how better things would be if I wasn’t here, but I would genuinely never consider taking my own life seriously. I moved to another country a year ago and was ok for a while, but the last few months the moods have been coming back with force, I feel like I am cracking up, and I am now frightened that I am going to lose the new friends, lifestyle, job I have made for myself. I have had some unhappiness in my life, but its no excuse for the way I behave, I literally feel like a crazy person, its like I have two sides to me and I never know which one is going to come out.
When I was living in the UK I built up the courage to see my doctor, but she refused to help me as I got emotional when I was trying to explain how the moods were affecting my life and she claimed I was suicidal (which I wasn’t I genuinely did want some help)
Does anybody have any advice or thoughts?
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I wish you luck