Roller Coaster Emotions

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Does anybody else here go from feeling like dying to loving everything in less than a hour? Despite meds; this has always been the way I have been. It's like a switch being flipped on and off, on and off, all day long. To be honest, lately it's been more of the first one than the second, but that could change. I'm not bipolar, I've been evaulated for that over and over.

I am bipolar but I also have very fast changing moods that can be based on a look someone gives me - I think that the bipolar accounts for underlying moods but my basic feelings about a siutation can turn on a dime . . . this is not changed by medication for me, either - what medication does for me is to take the edge off of these feelings - so when my mood switches from pretty ok to wanting to cry because someone I care about looked at me wrong when I'm on meds I can say 'Well, that is silly . . .' but if I'm not on meds I'll start crying - it doesn't get rid of the feelings just mediates the response . . .

There is such a thing as rapid cycling; and I read the average time spent in search of the right diagnosis for bipolar disorder is around 10 years...

Good info on bipolar disorder: http://www.mcmanweb.com/

Sometimes, my moods shift. Most of the time, however, I do not feel anything at all.

I have some terrible mood swings, not very pleasent, really. I don't tend to notice them being as drastic, but my family does.

My mood swings are a little better with the Seroquel (or at least my reactions)