Do any of you guys have extreme mood swings? I thought about killing myself this afternoon, and now I am feeling normal. As in, not even depressive. Is this a common symptom ?
Thanks
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I definitely have mood swings of the sort you described. They seem to come on randomly too. I could feel down about myself and my life for an hour, then the next hour feel like everything’s okay and there’s hope for my future.
I’m sorry you suffer the same thing. 
I don’t know how to tame my own moods so unfortunately I have no advice to give.
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I completely understand that- I was so miserable this morning I started counting pills to see if the amount I had would kill me. It’s crushing- but it only lasts for about 12 or so hours at most ? Do you get the opposite too? Sometimes I get so so happy- my mood changes between one extreme almost 75% of the week, it’s hard to feel myself anymore. When I’m in a good mood I try to do measures to ensure I don’t have to go to therapy anymore, I feel so good I feel cured and anyone who questions me I lash out at.
It’s difficult! Have you been on any medication that’s made it a bit better for you? Sorry I don’t mean to talk about myself so much 
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Yes I do get extreme mood swings. I frequently plop down on the bed to cry out I want to die, then in a little bit I forget about it and get back to do whatever I was doing. It’s the bipolar part of sza.
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That’s comforting at least- I haven’t been diagnosed with sza and I don’t think I meet all the requirements, but also I don’t know. I’m feeling fine right now, I want to give up trying to get help.
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Yes.
NO!
YES!
Maybe?
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I sure do. It’s a habit I’ll spend most of my days wishing I was off meds, realizing I might need them, wishing I was off them, back and forth with no rhyme or reason. I would really like to be off them but I know my disease has progressed so I would have to be ready to face the massive self esteem boost again
Sorry for the late reply!
I don’t really experience extreme happiness. I do empathize with your thinking you’re cured when you feel good. I scheme to get out of therapy too but then something happens that makes me realize that I do not handle stress well at all right now so I’d better take advantage of all the mental health resources I can while I can.
As for meds, I recently started Wellbutrin and it’s started to stabilize me a little already I think. It’s taken the edge off of my depression.
And you’re fine haha, look at how much I talked about myself in this post. 
In the beginning of my illness I had extreme mood swings… So the doc thought I was schizoaffective. Now I don’t have the mood swings anymore and I am diagnosed schizophrenic…
@doodle What are the medicines you are taking? Generally they give mood stabilizers to control extreme mood swings.
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I was having the same symptoms, “mood swings”, firstly my “suicide alarm system” knocked in the brain like if was giving me “signals”, as if to die was an option for my suffering. Later, I was experimenting considerable happiness in the day, I felt joy from the music I was listening to and I was simply positive, nothing would bother me a lot.
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