Is this normal teenager behaviour?

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In the past 4 months I've been having cycles of highs and lows. Before February i was just depressed, but winter is always shi**y and dark. And this one was worse, cause my friend killed himself. But now I have great highs. For instance at the weekend I felt amazing. I could talk to anyone, do anything. Things feel fresh. ( I went into a shop for the first time in 2 years). But since then I've had lots of mood changes. In the lows I just want to die. I feel very scared of the world and I find myself just starring at things. Also some days I eat loads, like binge on food. Others I eat hard anything.
Whether I'm in a high or low I feel confused. Are these mood swings normal for a teenager?

I could be, but it sounds a lot like bipolar to me, but so long you are in puberty it's very hard to tell so long you don't have very speciffic symptoms like a high mania.
So I would carefull watch my mood and make a mood chart and talk with a professional about it.

It sounds more extreme than a typical teenager, in my opinion, but most of the teenagers I've known are atypical in some way so I'm a poor judge of that.

It could be. But then again, I was told that my "mood swings were totally normal" and it turned out they weren't. Only a psychiatrist can really tell the difference between normal teenage moods and a mood disorder.

As Raziel said, get the mood swings recorded, along with hours of sleep you had the night before, any meds you're taking (especially if theres a change) and anything, if you can think of it, that could have caused the mood.

I use this mood chart:
http://www.psychiatry24x7.com/content/b ... _chart.pdf

I made a mood chart myself for showing my mood swings over the course of my life since they started but that one is really good.

Anyways, How long have your moods remained at a certain level? Hours, days, weeks or months?