Mood Swings and how to Get Over Them

Sudden Mood Swings

You were driving your car normally, feeling neither especially happy nor down, when you suddenly started to feel irritated, uncomfortable and downcast. You don't know why this would happen so suddenly, but you've just had a mood swing.

Why do I have Mood Swings?

After reading about the causes of mixed and unwanted emotions you may have built an idea about the possible causes for bad moods, but what may still be unclear is why your mood happened to change at that particular moment.

Your mind is always in the process of receiving inputs from the external world through your five senses. Any of these external inputs can alter your train of thought, causing you to think of different objects or situations. For example, if you were driving your car then suddenly noticed a car accident, you might be reminded of a previous accident that you had, as well as any events associated with it. Or maybe another external input reminded you of an unsolved problem, or something else that has been bothering you. This would definitely cause your mood to change for the worse.

But I don’t Remember Having Such Thoughts, My Mood just Swings

It's normal not to even notice these thoughts because they happen so fast. At any moment your subconscious mind receives tremendous amounts of external input, all of which affect your thoughts, so it's pretty normal that you don’t notice a thought but still feel its effect, that being the mood swing.

Another reason for not noticing these thoughts is that they may happen unconsciously and so you're just unaware of them. Taking the previous example of having such thoughts while driving, your conscious mind may be busy concentrating on the road while your subconscious mind may be thinking about your problems or bad memories, and so you skip noticing these thoughts and just experience the mood swing.

How You Can Get over these Sudden Mood Swings

Fortunately the two above-mentioned causes can be eliminated by taking one action: learning to monitor your thoughts. Monitoring your thoughts means that whenever you find your feelings starting to change a bit, you just search your thoughts and find what was the possible cause for this minor change. This may seem hard at the beginning, but with practice you will be able to correctly detect the reason for any minor emotional change that you experience.

One final thing you should be aware of is that usually more than one thought accumulate before your mood swings, or before your day changes from a good day to a bad one. For example, a single thought could come in the morning and another a few hours later. Both of those thoughts could then be enough to change your mood, or they could stay dormant until another thought comes, which when combined with the first two, causes a mood swing.

Watch your thoughts closely, try to find links between your feelings and your thoughts at each moment and don’t worry if it seems to require a lot of effort at first. Within a short time this will turn into an unconscious process and it will be one of your built-in functions.

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