Mood disorders not caused by things in outside your head.

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Ana54
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25 Feb 2008, 4:47 pm

A lot of my mood wierdness was because of things I already explained that was going on inside my head due to stuff that first happened outside it in my life, or things that were going on in my life outside my head right then that I didn't understand. But somemtimes I also feel irritable, angry, sad, terrified, etc. for no reason other than that I just feel that way and I usually get all those feelings at once (but that was due to undestimulation and thus simple depression that was fixed with stimulation in my life). And I realized, I'm stimulated now, I have a life, I have lots of friends, I'm taking fun legal stimulants. But I still have wierd moods that don't match my life. So that means I have a f*****g mood disorder on top of the understimulation problem I had before!


Now I'm happy. I got that out and now know what it is! Yay! But how do I help this go away or am I stuck with it or what? I went off my antidepressants way faster than I'm officially supposed to so maybe the antidepressants helped the mood disorder and my problem before was just the understimulation, now the understimulation is not a problem but the mood disorder is... so should I like go back on the anti-d's or something?



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25 Feb 2008, 6:05 pm

HM. Hm.....

Well, being around good friends,
It's what helps me, mostly!


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26 Feb 2008, 3:58 am

I think it is a lot to do with serotonin and endorphins, dopamine, oxytocin, all sorts of invisible chemicals...

I think the best thing to do for the mood is exercise, healthy diet, and very importantly start up some sort of project and keep at it.. I think that helps with stimulation levels.

Im just getting out of a bout of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Ive been the Psychobitch From Hell since November and im glad the spring is coming.


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26 Feb 2008, 2:01 pm

You need to move down here. :) People shouldn't have to put up with winter.