Dealing with Mood Swings

Do you or someone you love have mood swings? Probably most humans have mood swings but it's how far you swing and how often your moods swing that determine whether or not it's worth considering therapy and/or medication. This is an excellent article I found on http://www.babyboomerarticles.com/. I hope this will be helpful to you!

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Mood Swings: Dealing With The Unpredictable By: Harvey D. Ong
In one moderately publicized case in the US, a man filed for divorce, wishing to part ways with his wife, who had just given birth. The reasons for the divorce were summed up as “irreconcilable differences,” which tends to be legal jargon for “they got each other angry and neither one is mature enough to apologize.”
The divorce proceedings didn't get very far because it wasn't all that hard to dismiss, according to people who were aware of the confidential details of the case. As one of them anonymously commented, the whole thing really came down to the man being unable to deal with his pregnant wife's mood swings.
Among the multitude of things that people might find annoying or difficult to deal with while a woman is pregnant, the mood swings might be among the most complex. Simply defined, mood swings are those sudden changes in the emotional state of a person. These can happen for any number of reasons, with some people choosing to blame hormones and others finding fault in the woman's psychology.
In general, most physicians believe that the emotional changes that women undergo during pregnancy are caused by hormones. Pregnancy causes spikes in hormone levels that prevent fertilization when a woman is already pregnant. These same hormones also affect physical changes in the body, such as increased milk production in the breasts and preparing the pathways through which the baby will pass through during the birth process.
Hormones can also affect mental changes, making a woman happy and perky one minute, depressed and in despair the next.If the woman isn't pregnant, then there are still other possible reasons for them to have mood swings. Even men can have sudden changes in their mood and emotional state. Bipolar disorder is known to cause mood changes in the people that have them. These changes tend to be infrequent, but can occur very suddenly and without any sort of indication that they are going to happen.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has also been known to cause someone's mood to suddenly and rapidly change, though this is not considered a common occurrence among those with ADHD. Other mood disorders, like depression and anxiety disorder can also bring about sudden changes in mood. It should be noted that mood swings are not necessarily a symptom of ADHD. Anything that can alter or tamper with the hormone levels of the body can result in sudden changes in a person's mood.
These include post-menstrual syndrome, menopause, and puberty.If the problem is hormonal, the best approach is to simply wait it out. Human bodies tend to even out their hormone levels after a while, returning to what can be considered a “default” state. Once the hormones have returned to their normal levels, then the person's mood should return to normal as well.
If the problem isn't hormonal, then it is usually best to find a therapist that one is comfortable with, to discuss the potential causes and the best treatments for it. It is better to seek professional help than let something like this do damage to one's personal relationships.
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