Why Are Teens So Moody?

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Whatever the cause of moodiness, it is draining for others and you may be a significant other. He was hangedfor piracy in 1722. It sort of makes sense psychologically: as you are accepting being guilty of making others uncomfortable, you stop feeling like provoking it. Why would our brains have evolved not only to experience bad moods at something as trivial as a loss by our favorite sports team, but also to be so deeply affected by these reactions?

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What we do have is a set of symptoms which exist on a broad continuum. What gets tricky is identifying where the threshold lies between normal functioning and psychopathology. People come in all shapes and forms. In fact, the uniqueness of each individual's thought process, behavior and temperament is akin to the snowflake analogy. We just don't see duplication of the mind, even with identical. On the bell curve of human experience, there are those whose you are so moody, feelings and behaviors lie far outside the middle. If their uniqueness works for you are so moody, that's excellent. After all, there's nothing inherently good about being in the middle. But what if this uniqueness means mood and behavioral patterns recurrently shift without clear reason and apart from a sense of choice. And what if this experience also leads to recurrent painful and unwanted difficulties. In other words, this isn't just a simple choice to be idiosyncratic. It's more like these individuals have little sense of agency about being the way they are. There's been a lot said about the drawbacks of diagnosis. They tell us little or nothing about the cause of an illness. They are often not prescriptive with regard to specific treatment approaches. There's also the unfortunate reality that psychiatric diagnoses still carry a moderate degree of social stigma. But the one positive outcome I do observe through clinical assessment is that the rendering of the bipolar diagnosis often helps people begin to make sense of their experience. Instead of becoming distraught by the diagnosis, it's common to hear the expression of relief at finally knowing what's wrong. In fact, I've often heard patients say you are so moody to the effect of - Oh, now I finally get what's been going on with me. And once getting it the door can open to the process of dealing with it; which brings us back to the question - where does being moody cross over into the realm of bipolar disorder. One of the most important features to distinguish in this comparison is whether mood variability occurs exclusively in relation to situational variables. If that's the case; if there's always you are so moody going on which would account for your shifting mood, then it's likely you don't have bipolar disorder. That's not to say that individuals with bipolar disorder are not influenced by situation. But most who have bipolar disorder also report times when mood elevates or becomes depressed without any apparent cause. The classic scenario here is that you're just going about your life and you notice you're gradually feeling more upbeat and energized. Your mind is moving faster than usual and you feel like you're on a creative high that will generate all kinds of wonderful outcomes. You welcome your sense of and well being. Your concerns about finances disappear and you want to spend simply because it feels good to do so; and besides, you're you'll come up with some new means of covering all your expenses. For now, they just don't matter. There's so much to do and three to five hours seems sufficient to recharge your batteries and easily keep you energized through the next day. And all this is happening on its own - no lottery ticket, no exciting new in your life, no Fulbright scholarship, nothing. And you want to hold on and cherish the high for as long as you can. But after about a week, the intensity begins to feel too much and it all starts getting ragged around the edges. Irritability creeps in and gradually replaces the euphoria. Your lessened need for sleep morphs into exhaustion plus. You begin to have a sense of dread. No one died; no bad news, no defeat - it all just ends like it started - for no clear reason, except that your brain's neurocircuitry is overworked and your reserve of is on empty. It's important to note that the bipolar journey doesn't always take this same route. Sometime it can start with an event which stimulates excitement; or it can even be activated as a function of sustained high. Same with a depressive crash - it can be brought on by a very painful or disappointing event. However, despite the presence of these clear causal connections, most with bipolar disorder will tell you that at some point they've also experienced mood shifts that occur in the absence of any situational precipitant. I'm thinking of one patient whose mood would radically shift during her previous night's sleep. She would go to bed in mid-range mood and awaken fully hypomanic after not having experienced any mood elevation in the preceding several several months. She and others like her often find themselves on the bipolar coaster without purchasing a ticket. Two other salient aspects of the moody vs. If you're not bipolar but having a rough time with moodiness, you'll likely find that your mood intensity is lower than someone with bipolar disorder. Even more relevant than intensity is the issue of mood duration. We all have good days and bad days. Someone who thinks of themselves as moody may perceive that they've had more than their share of bad days. But if you're truly bipolar then you've had episodes of fairly acute depression which at some point have lasted two weeks or more. Additionally, you've seen elevated mood that has lasted a minimum of four days and you are so moody longer. What exactly that may be is hard to know without more specific information. If you're wondering what diagnostic categories are most frequently associated with moodiness besides bipolar you should investigate the categories involvingparticularly the borderline and types. If you're unsure, it's worth your while to see a professional about your concerns. Sometimes the telling symptoms of bipolar disorder can be present at a low level that has not yet reached the threshold of bipolar diagnostic criteria. The problem here, and it's one where the moody you are so moody. Essentially, the full symptom picture is still in the process of emerging. Technically this is referred to as the prodromal phase. I often like you are so moody refer to this as bipolar brewing. This is a situation where closely examining one's family history of mood disorders can be instrumental in identifying patterns that could become problematic later on. And if you're someone who does identify with the moody label, you may wonder - why not just let things take their own course and worry about bipolar disorder if and when it arrives on the scene. Simple - if you are genetically vulnerable to bipolar illness, the future course of your symptoms may be mitigated if you can get help and make necessary adjustments early on. Conversely, bipolar symptoms will usually you are so moody if ignored. Bipolar disorder doesn't go away simply because we don't want it. If your moodiness is no big deal, if it's just part of what constitutes the evolving colors of your life, then let yourself flow with it. But if you are concerned about your fluctuating mood intensity and if it's present much more than is acceptable for you, then please speak with someone who knows a lot about the bipolar diagnosis. He is also co-author of Facing Bipolar: The Young Adult's Guide to Dealing with Bipolar Disorder New Harbinger Publications. Your contrastive analysis of bipolar versus moody provides a clarity that is most helpful. As you indicated, we're just not there yet with a tool to make a more definitive diagnosis. My wish is thatalong the waythat the bipolar dx would become less stigmatized. From my perspective there continues to be so many pts, who are being medicated for diagnoses other than bipoar that actually include an array of symptoms that really fit the bipolar dx. I find that these individuals continue to suffer and even worsen. However, when the possibility of the bipolar dx is considered, people are horrified. Your article provides patients as well as therapists with a more comprehensive understanding of a very complicated subject matter. In other words, she encouraged me to have some hook-ups to grow up psychologically and socially. But then when I was in Texas, and I described some hook-ups to a Texas psychiatrist, she saw the same actions as a symptom of the hypersexuality of bipolar disorder. The Texas psychiatrist treated my conversational approaches to treatment as another symptom of bipolar disorder. The different psychiatrists are just predisposed to see pathology anywhere they look even though they are frequently pathologizing another psychiatrist's recommendation. What does it mean when you follow one psychiatrist's suggestions for behaviorial changes and the next psychiatrist just pathologizes those same behavior changes you just made. I have had numerous experiences of psychiatrists just care about being the normal authority and making the patient the abnormal deviant without regard to really looking at actual symptoms. Several times those symptoms were just suggestions or ideas conveyed to me by prior psychiatrists but the psychiatrists cannot recognize their own colleagues' ideas in the patient's voice. Borderline and Narcissistic, are at the moment considered personality disorders. Only those with mild Bipolar alterations, should be given the ''disorder'' label. Of course, all mental illnesses can be advanced by illicit drugs. I believe, we will see, and label, different kinds of psychosis differently. I think, most of the Republican Presidential Candidates should be seen as psychotic. Hopefully, everyone can see now, how that was a serious visual oversight. The mentally ill should also be seen as having emotional sensitivity differences. A kind of ''hyper'' or ''hypo'' emotions. Those with hyper-sensitivity, still have emotional blindspots and interpret reality inaccurately. The ''sensitive ones'' deserve a special status. My Bipolar friend a cutter, and suicidal, in his once psychotic state thinks the Republican candidates are bizarre, and emotionally frightening. It was so funny to hear you call you are so moody the 'bipolar coaster'. And then the ride guy makes it run backwards. Thank you for such great, clear content. For various reasons, like social stigma and suspicions on the kind of treatment I might receive, I have not yet consulted with a mental health expert about my mood swings. I have been plagued with extremely depressive episodes since I was about 3. I had always been hyperactive but all that changed in high school when I experienced a severe dip: I lost interest in school and in other things that used to hold my interest. Two years later, I was on an optimistic high and continued to do so until the end of my college days. From then, I would constantly swing from happy to really sad to elated to really depressed with or without situational triggers. This article, along with other literature I have found online, somehow convinced me to at least have my condition checked. In my experience psychologists are not likely to diagnose Bipolar correctly. I went to several therapists that failed to recognize what was happening. I was finally referred to a psychiatrist by my doctor. I suffered for years because my therapists were too ignorant or arrogant to recognize what was happening. They even advised me to take antidepressants which ended up making my condition far worse than it was to begin with. Expecting a psychologist to correctly handle more serious psychiatric disorders is like expecting a school nurse to perform open heart surgery. The difference being that the school nurse would be far more likely to know their limitations. I have concern for my husband who is 66yrs. He also has silent monolouges with himself at the table, talks out loud when resting, awakes disoriente. Dementia and Alzheimers run in his family, he is also a cardiac patient with a long horrifying history involving surgery that caused a code blue, he stroked out but was brought back to life and was on life support for a long time, he has made a full recovery, but the neurological aspects are concerning, ie. I'm depressed and then extremely happy. I don't believe it is bipolar, I believe it has something to do with my life father hates me and used me to justify his affair - then blamed me for the marriage ending Plus I feel out of shape not over weight Just tired. Refuse to take medications like Zoloft as it makes me dead inside. Depression and bipolar disorder run in my family heavily. While I've never had a manic episode, I probably straddle the line between bipolar and unipolar depression if such a line exists :} If your mood swings have an identifiable cause, it's less likely to be mental you are so moody in my experience. If they come out of the blue frequently, you might have an issue. The topiramate I take for migraines has helped with the moodiness quite a bit. I know it's sometimes prescribed as a mood stabilizer.

While his detractors may have felt that his actions where out of the mainstream, no one ever doubted his mental facility, and it seems that the label was most likely one of respect or admiration for the sheer force of his character and personality. We also have estrogen, which drives many of us crazy. Cut up the list and place moods in a hat. I find that these individuals continue to suffer and even worsen. By: bethany on Sep 14, 2013 I've been rejected because I liked girls By: Alessadra Nicole on Aug 9, 2013 My answers are mostly true! These Terms of Use, including without limitation any disputes relating to the Materials on the Site, whether sounding in contract, tort, statute or otherwise, is governed by the laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law principles and without regard to the U. Because the brain is built on experience, and it takes the first two and a half decades of life to sort of scaffold the brain. I have concern for my husband who is 66yrs.