Mood swings, also called "emotional lability" - a fairly common type of mental disorder, which leads to a variety of reasons.
Mood swings do not have the best effect on relationships, give them a shade of unpredictability.
The mood changes can never be foreseen: they occur as if out of the situation. The emotions of a person suffering from mood instability seem completely out of control: the feeling of cloudless happiness can only change in a few minutes the deepest depression, a feeling of despair.
Causes of sudden changes in the mood
One of the most common causes of emotional instability are violations of the endocrine system, which can be caused by hypothyroidism, pregnancy, menopause and a number of other physiological and biological problems. As numerous scientific studies show, especially the strong hormonal imbalance affects the emotional background of women and girls. Avot men less often turn to specialists with similar problems.
During pregnancy, the restructuring of the hormonal system greatly affects the behavior of the woman. On the phone there is a frequent tearfulness, a state of anxiety that is fueled by the fear of difficult births, the fear of losing a child.
Overwork, lack of rest sleep, as well as alcohol, smoking and overeating - all this can exacerbate the morbid state.
The second reason for sudden changes in mood is psychological stress and stress. Problems in working and in the family, the lack of mutual understanding between parents and children, between the wife and wife, often leads to emotional distress.
Thus, for the establishment of the influence of biological factors on the emotional state, appropriate laboratory tests are carried out, after which the medication is prescribed for medication. The role of psychological factors should be recognized by the psychotherapist or psychiatrist in the course of communication with the patient. In the event that the instability and mobility of mental processes is one of the personality traits (or, as the people say, a "bad" character), the patient is given sessions of psychotherapy.
Sometimes the instability of emotional background in an adult can be traced from childhood. The point of the child's reaching a certain age processes of excitation of inhibition, occurring in his nervous system, are unbalanced. Alignment of these processes, as a rule, can be traced with the growth. However, some people for one reason or another constraining centers can not be formed, or at some point in their work, sudden disruptions may begin.
In the first case, one can judge the so-called "neurotic" personality, the processes of maturation of mental structures are distorted or hindered. And in the second category of people, the inability to control emotions indicates the manifestation of neurosis-a temporary painful reaction to stressful situations.
In any of these cases, it is necessary to seek help from a competent psychotherapist who will determine when the failure occurred and what triggered him, and then he will choose the treatment strategy.
Common factors that can cause sudden changes in the mood:
- Lack of love. Those who vedetstve lacked parental love, affection and attention, often suffer from emotional instability and nervousness in adulthood. Such a person can suddenly feel a sense of depression, loneliness and emptiness.
- Unmet needs. A person living in constant contradiction with his own inner world, it is peculiar to suppress his desires and needs. This, in turn, becomes the cause of irritability and bad mood. Tip: With increased emotional excitability, folk medicine recommends motherwort, lavender and camomile daisy.
- The inability to live here now. Such people do not know how to enjoy the present moment, to be in it. Living in negative memories of the past or anxieties and experiences, we often simply can not concentrate on those events that happen in time.