Question by Preda: bipolar, mood swings, depression and cutting. Where do i go for help?
My fiance has some issues including bipolar, mood swings, depression and cutting. Where do I go for help without taking him to a doctor? Is there someone I can call anonymously to get him help?

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Did you know that what we eat will actually help in controlling mood swings much more than we think? This is a fact of life often overlooked by many doctors and patients who merely prescribe anti depressants and little else. The main complaint about these drugs is that they can turn us into lethargic and shadowy figures.

So, let us go back to nutrition for the brain. We are obsessed about diet having an effect on our waistline but rarely think that about the effect it will have on our brains.

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Mood swings are a drastic emotional change from one continuum to another. A person with mood swings may be seen happy at a time and in the next moment is suddenly completely unreceptive, upset or irritated. Mood swings are commonly associated with mood disorders – bipolar or manic depression, multiple personality, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), asperger syndrome and pre-menstrual syndrome in women. Hormonal changes, especially in women, can also cause temporary distress in the brain chemistry; thus resulting to mood swings. However, as soon as the change in hormones stabilizes, the mood swings eventually subside. Knowing how to control mood swings is a helpful way of maintaining relationships and quality of job performance even at the onset of mood swings.

Feeling or experiencing a variety of negative emotions like irritability, anger, sadness, and tearfulness is normal given the fact that stress is always present. However, when these emotions go haywire and would start affecting or causing inability to function normally, these become a major concern. Mood swings that are associated with other psychological concerns are mostly dealt with a help of professional psychologists.

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Jim is a successful software engineer and a happily married man with a loving wife and two lovely children. These days, he goes through a range of emotions in the matter of hours and there seems to be just one term to describe it – a roller coaster ride. When he wakes up in the morning, he feels great and looks forward to the day. Breakfast time with his family is a fun-filled time and Jim feels his normal self, joking and asking his kids about their school and friends. By lunch, his mood has darkened and he is tense and nervous. This at times results in his feeling aggressive towards his co-workers and subordinates. By end of the day, he is extremely restless and can barely wait to finish his work and head home. Back home, his mood stays unchanged. He does not want to speak to anyone or go out and do something. By late evening, Jim is feeling fine again. He is watching some old movies with his family and fondly reminiscing about the past. But as the night approaches, Jim’s spirits start to sink again till he is in utter despair by midnight. Day in and day out, Jim goes through these extreme mood shifts and he is afraid that he has completely lost control of his emotions.

Jim is going through what are called Mood Swings. The most common way of defining mood swings is that they are rapidly changing moods. Capable of causing extreme emotional distress, mood swings can make you feel very lost and lonely. In fact, your reactions in certain situations may be absolutely extreme without your even realizing it. Though a very common occurrence, not many realize that they are going through mood swings, resulting in a very frustrating time for both themselves and even more so for their family members, till they seek help. Everyone goes through stress and anxiety at different stages and at different levels in their lifetime and these can cause mood swings from time to time. However, if the mood swings are frequent and are severe enough to be disrupting your life, you should seek help.

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I am dating a smart, witty, beautiful 23 year old (happy birthday today!) girl who I share a lot of values and common interests with. (I am also female, by the way). The biggest problem is, she has Bipolar disorder. She IS being medicated for it, but of course, she still has her mood swings.

I understand that she is going to have more “dramatic” mood swings then a “normal” person would… but how do i deal with it exactly? It gets difficult for me when she is sad or depressed- And while I am always there for her, I wonder what I SHOULD be doing to help her out, if anything at all.

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A bomb exploded in the middle of my life when I was expelled from St. Thomas University School of Law.  I was hurt, angry and confused.  And fighting the lawsuit against the school without an attorney became my life’s work formore than four years.2

I wish I did not have to admit this because it is not good for Christians – or anyone else for that matter – to be consumed with anything but Christ.  But there were times when I was consumed with the lawsuit and expulsion. Now, not two years later, thank God, I can hardly get interested in it enough to write about it.  It just doesn’t seem to matter anymore beyond the specific circumstances that I mention here as examples of the blessings of bipolar.

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I get these rapid mood swings. Like once i came up to get dressed for bed, and my dad started joking around with me. I started yelling, slamming the cupboard door, and i eventually punched off the door handle and chucked it at a mirror. I remember when I was like 7, I thought I was a buisness man, and I was going to make billions and billions of dollars for my family. And when I was 6 I thought I was Jesus, and I would walk in the mall in a white robe, i could make the wind come and stop and control the weather.
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When i get these mood swings, it looks like an epileptic fit, its quite scary. Also, I had a shit day at school and everyone was teasing me. I had 4 outbursts at home. 1: I had one of those “epileptic fit” looking things in the car. 2nd outburst: I smashed the car keys on the tile floor, kicked my door closed and sobbed on the floor for at least 1 hour.
3rd outburst: I had another “epileptic fit” looking things. And then, at night, when I was in bed i jumped up and started dancing. I was completely Hyper-Active, Elated, I thought I was God, I was going to make a bomb filled with special gas, and bomb the entire world with the gas, and the gas would make every one happy. I was pacing up and down tirelessly, jumping up and down, running around the house, Remember! this is all at 11:00 at night!

Manic Episode? Bipolar? What!

but I have not noticed any. How long do people go through the periods where they are feeling okay and when they are feeling bad?

How can a teenager be diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder? I mean, wouldn’t you be easily confused with the tendancy young people have to rapidly change moods? Look, I’m almost positive that I’m Bipolar, but my mom thinks it is just regular teenage mood swings. I think it’s too severe for that. I sort of want to be diagnosed as being Bipolar because I want help. I don’t like what happens to me, but I can’t really fight it. If you’d like to know WHY I think I’m bipolar…

-I eat a lot all the time.
-I have trouble waking up.
-I have trouble falling asleep.
-I can become extremely angry in a heartbeat over absolutely nothing. In my anger, I have physically hurt people and damaged my house and my belongings. I can’t really control my anger or stop myself.
-I can feel unexplainably happy or hyper out of no where.
-I can’t really concentrate on one task.
-I often have thoughts about suicide and running away.
-I have trouble talking to others.

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i am happy most time but all of the sudden ill start to cry people make fun of me because i cry no one else understands me buti have one good friend and i’ve had him for a long time. (i am a boy and excuse me for my bad spelling)