Periodical Mood Changes

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR=Purple]Hey, I need some advice. You see until a few months ago i was just your average nerd, but then there was a chain of events which slowly changed me. I started to want to change and become a different person. At first I wanted to find someone else who was like me, then I gave up, ten I tried to find love, then I gave up, then I decided to be always happy. I trained myself to smile and laugh at everything. At the same time, and I don't know why, I started trying to be all kinds of things (suddenly I was a goth/hippy/gamer) and at the same time I was having feelings of love for people and stuff like that. Then I cracked one day and suddenly decided 'why the hell am I trying to be all these things when I've always been the one who doesn't care about anything?' And tried to change back to what I had always been. And then shortly afterwards i suddenly was thinking very clearly, making wise decisions and getting oddly philosophical. But it wasn't but a few days before suddenly I was becoming that happy, strange little lover again and I started to fall deeply in love with someone but then the very next day I once again snapped, broke up, and went into some uber-serious clear-thinking mentality. Of course, like clockwork, I was becoming the same different person again, fell in love again, and just yesterday my mind suddenly told me I was doing the wrong thing and pointed out all the things I needed to do right, just as it had contradicted days before.

Every time I go through this cycle I hurt myself more and I hurt another person/s. And each time, the cycle has sped up. What the hell is wrong with me? [/COLOR]

[Tical's Foxboy]

Its going to be ok. We all go through a stage like that but during this we find who we truly are. You woun't hurt me ok I have been through the same thing before so your not alone.

[2010DigitalBoy]

I'm not concerned about you, I'm worried about what the hell is with me. I'm sick of all this 'we all go through some phase' ********, give me a damn strait scientifically proven answer.

[Guest Sean]

[SIZE=1]Calm the beans.

It is a stage in your life, 'cause here I am sitting here, with 7 girlfriends behind me in about 2 months. So, just because you think it's affecting you and you think you're ill, well you're really not.

If you're hurting yourself during the process then why don't you stop yourself from asking out the person you 'oh-so-suddenly fall in love with'. Seriously, if you think it's love and you break up with them after a few days, it really isn't.

Just think about that.[/SIZE]

[Shi no Tenshi]

Quite simply, it's called puberty. And although Foxboy's reply was somewhat vague, he's got a point - a lot of people go through these sort of phases. It's probably a surge of hormones that have you got you riding a roller coaster of high's a low's - trust me I've been there (and when my period comes round it starts up again -.-). You can't stop it, you just have to maintain your cool and think about what makes you happy instead of trying to change back and forwards.

I remember I used to have the worst mood swings, where I'd be sreaming in public, throwing tantrums at 14, then sweet as sugar the next. My mother used to have random people on the streets go up to tell her to put me in therapy *rofl*

And then there were the sombre phases where like you I would sit down and philosophize. In fact a lot of my good poetry came from those days.

My advice - make the most out of it. If people get hurt the most you can do is apologise and say you were having a bad day, or even better, make it up to them. Puberty can be traumatic but it can also be a wonderful and curious thing.

[EVA Unit 100]

What I'm currently going through isn't quite as cyclical as what Hug Monster is talking about, but I've been having some random mood changes as well. In the past 3 months I've been overachieving, underachieving, depressed, and now I want to be much more peppy and upbeat. I think a sudden mood swing would take my friends at school by shock. Thank God for winter vacation and New Year's resolutions.

You know, me and Hug Monster seem to have more in common the more I read his posts. Maybe you can IM me, Tical! My name is HoyvinGlavin64.