Does anyone's mood change drastically like 3x per day?

[worriedsick]

So I was thinkin about it - in the course of one day i have times when i can convince myself that im ok... then i twist my neck and i get a pain and i think oh crap this is it... then i forget about it and think everything is ok... then... cycle continues =(

[abeja_reina_1989]

i definately have those days where i wake up fine.. then something "dumb" happens.. like, i have to walk my dog but im too tired, and then i get in a grumpy mood. i kno it sounds weird, but then i come back home and for ex.. my bfs sleeping and then im upset bc i feel all alone.. then it's hard to wake him up... then it just seems to escalate.. then maybe i go to therapy.. and come back feeling great.. then if something makes me nervous.. i may go back to the anxious mood. some of the time i end up crying a lot and its just really frustrating. i know exactly what you mean and i kno it's confusing. there's a great book called The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook.. my doc told me about it and one of my bffs has been reading it.. she has pretty bad anxiety. i would recommend that. also therapy helps a lot.. maybe even look into meds.. i just started mine tho, so i can't tell ya too much abou those. just stay positive!! ur going to get thru this!! just think positive!!

"i can" statements are great...
i find writing helpful... write down things that make u happy or maybe write down when your moods starts changing.. it helps me a lot!!!! just an idea. message me back if u need to talk more

[s-jay]

That was me ... I could start out fine and then the smallest thing would set me off, a small pain, a little vision blur and my day would go completely out the window ..panic, panic, panic and that was on a daily basis ... ... That is mostly over for me, the period between panic / anxiety over these things is now months rather than hours ... but I am sure I will experience it again sometime in my life and I feel for those going through it now

[abeja_reina_1989]

honestly, just think positively and know that there's sooooo much support for you out there!!!

[worriedsick]

well the thing about my mood is I still have this horrible health-anxiety where I feel like there has to be something wrong with me - the pains in my neck and fatigued muscles and pain in forearms/fingers - can't be from anxiety right?   

So I go from walking around outside thinking wow its great to be alive.  then I think about something that normally makes me happy or start thinking about the future, and i get hit with "should i be thinking about the future? - am i going to be around?"  and then i get nervous thinking I should be doing something else because my time is limited etc.  then it goes full circle.  I counted this happen 15x today. lol.

[Pan]

well the thing about my mood is I still have this horrible health-anxiety where I feel like there has to be something wrong with me - the pains in my neck and fatigued muscles and pain in forearms/fingers - can't be from anxiety right?   

So I go from walking around outside thinking wow its great to be alive.  then I think about something that normally makes me happy or start thinking about the future, and i get hit with "should i be thinking about the future? - am i going to be around?"  and then i get nervous thinking I should be doing something else because my time is limited etc.  then it goes full circle.  I counted this happen 15x today. lol.

I was speaking to a therapist about this very thing today.  It is almost like bipolar health anxiety, one moment you have a glaring insight that you are well and that things are good and then the next moment you feel one of your 'core' symptoms and BANG you are back at square one..I know this can happen to me 5, 6, 7 times a day...very frustrating.

Anyways, the therapist I was talking to said that this was very common amongst people with health anxiety and that it was just generally as a result of us forgetting to monitor ourselves and then we are living in  moments of normality.  Of course, we then notice a symptom and in a split second we process this and all the fear and negativity literally floods back into our mind and bodies....whilst this is a physical process it is totally and 100% generated by the faullty cognition of the symptom.

[wannabfree]

I do this...all the time, all day long. I can be all at once happy and yet melancholy. One minute I feel happy and hopeful, but 10 minutes later, after reflecting on something, I may feel a little down. Probably connected to anxiety. If you're starting thinking about the future, and then worried if you're going to be around or not, well that can definitely change your mood and all. I wouldn't worry about focusing on it too much or counting how often you did it. Seriously if I were to count how often I did this, I wouldn't have time to do anything else. 

Btw, I like your pic of the cookie!! :)

[worriedsick]

I do this...all the time, all day long. I can be all at once happy and yet melancholy. One minute I feel happy and hopeful, but 10 minutes later, after reflecting on something, I may feel a little down. Probably connected to anxiety. If you're starting thinking about the future, and then worried if you're going to be around or not, well that can definitely change your mood and all. I wouldn't worry about focusing on it too much or counting how often you did it. Seriously if I were to count how often I did this, I wouldn't have time to do anything else. 

Btw, I like your pic of the cookie!! :)

yeah the cookie is a reminder to myself that i survived eating mold - it freaked me out for the rest of that day.

[abeja_reina_1989]

you can get all kinds of pains from anxiety. i have a nauseated feeling a lot of the time and just feel very tired

[aletam7745]

i am the same way....sometimes i think omg i feel so good and i may not feel anything but i will be like ok im not worrying and then that worris me that something will happen so then i start wrrying and it is just a vicious neverending cycle

[Paticake35]

Yes, just yesterday I had all sorts of scary things going on, but by last night I was getting some relief. Today, so far- so good....unless I watch House again...

[Pan]

Yes, just yesterday I had all sorts of scary things going on, but by last night I was getting some relief. Today, so far- so good....unless I watch House again...

Hey, I watched House last night and got the correct diagnosis (Sjorgens Syndrome) after about 2 minutes.  I may train as a doctor..lol

[Paticake35]

LOL, I got that once on Mystery Diagnosis....for some reason that show scares me a lot less than House.