Mood swings can happen because of events and upsets or great things happening to us or to others we care about, ups and downs are part of life. But what about the self-inflicted mood swings?
If you had a few drinks and it got a bit heavy, then today you will suffering “the monday blues” and write everything else off for the day, instead of sweating it out and automatically lifting yourself out of it. Plenty will say “look after you”, but sitting on the settee contemplating too much is not looking after yourself, getting some fresh air, and moving your body is much more like it.
If you try to “cure” irritability, feeling low with food from takeaways/convenience stores, then that may indeed give you a sugar lift for 30 mins, but ultimately pushes you into a slump of sometime epic proportions for the rest of the day.
Continue that for days, weeks and months and it’s no wonder you will get depressed from all the weight you have put on, all the stress that is now on your joints and accompanying pain. You find yourself in a hole that seems very hard to get out of, physically and emotionally.
As a society, we are told we must do these things regularly and often to excess, to make us more “fun” when the reality is those closest to us have to pick up the emotional pieces, when we find ourselves at our lowest ebb.
Drinking too much and eating too much all the time leads often to “fake moments of happiness” which we do just to please other people just to look as if we are having “fun”.
Be yourself, take care of yourself really and properly, take care of your body and your mind, get some fresh air, get a decent workout, eat well and healthy, have a treat now and again and get the balance right in your life-now THAT would really be fun and keeps you much happier and fulfilled when NOBODY else is looking and you don’t have to please anyone else, which is your most important time.
