Are you afraid of your mood swings?

Sripriya R
4 min readSep 17, 2020

Have you ever wonder about how your mood tends to change&how it goes through all sorts of deviations and back again. In common parlance, it's pretty hard to cope up with your instability mind. Although mood swings may occur with you, they also affect everyone around you and you might start losing people rapidly and also exhibit self-destructive behavior. sometimes nothing else gets change but your mood, your perception of things, yet everything gets changes through. When mood swings are so strong will disruptive your day.

Many different things might trigger mood swings. It can happen at any time. Mood swings can be normal and are an indicator of some issues. However, most people’s mind swing remains in the mild to moderate range of emotional ups and downs. The duration also varies, they might last for hours or extend over several days. But it’s common to experience a change in mood occasionally or to go through a short period of feeling elated or blue.you may also feel grumpy for a min and happy the next.

Instead of singling out your other half, take responsibilities for your mood swings with these 5 strategies.

1. Try to identify what makes your mind fluctuate often

If our mood swings are often ongoing issues, go for an immediate finding results of your oscillations mind.you may also have emotions that cause damage to your life when feeling becomes excessive which is that interfere with our daily life.

I also never say that mood swings mend to do negative things most of the time, it can also play a positive role to promote good deeds too. Eventually, identifying what makes you worry about something that leads to a change of your mind will not let you a problematic life and get rid of soon from your trouble path. Hence, try to identify the cause as soon as the minute you felt your swings.

2. Avoid having talks and spend time alone

Spend time alone to process. Repressing emotions takes a lot of our energy, meaning we are often tired without knowing why. The truth is that although it is uncomfortable at first, spending time alone with your feeling can actually help with depression in the long term as it also helps you understand yourself and let go of your old hurts.

But be careful you are not using alone time to hide rather than finding the solutions.It is advisable not to have a talk with your surrounded people if you are experiencing real anxiety over ever being in your mood swings. Therefore do your best to recover from it and get a grip on yourself. So that later, when somebody asks you “ how was the day?” then you will be well equipped to explain how things going on.

3. Seek help for support if needed

Instead of repelling your closest source of comfort, express that you need extra care during the course of mood swing. Moreover, venting when you are in a bad mood will not inspire others to inquire you.

So if something is just an annoyance shift your mindset&reduce your stress and ask them for support in a polite mannerism, if you are more likely to express. And be contagious in a positive way who utters to you. Remember, make your personality a priority and keep mind your manners. Predominantly, to the person who handles your mood swing thank them, that you owing their big time.

4. Set your due time and have clear boundaries

If you get cranky or irritated out of the blue and simply getting angry consecutively, set due time and let yourself to blow off the stream within the time you fix. But you have to keep your mood swings in check because getting frustrated will just simply feed their bad mood. Hence set the time limit and have boundaries compassionately within you, if you are really interested in fixing things and promise them will soonly get back to normal. You can also have your diet, practice stress management, do regular exercise, and get a good sleep and do more remedies to overcome and hit your due time successfully.

5. Foster a positive mood

Merely criticizing for your irrational behavior, varying sense of self-esteem and if out of nowhere, it projects negativity. To cultivate a positive mood, watch some motivational videos and some awe-inspiring quotes which induce your positive mood from your low feeling and get away your erratic mind. Nevertheless, learning to bring oneself down from a grandiose state of mind or up from exaggerate shame states is a part of being proactive.

“A great attitude becomes a great mood, which becomes a great day, which becomes a great year, which becomes a great life”.

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