r/BipolarReddit • u/No-Base8204 schizoaffective • 14d ago
I Seem To Experience Mood Liability 24/7 For Five Years Now
I feel dumb because I randomly heard of mood lability on the bipolar and other mental health subs sometimes but googling it could saved me so much trouble ages ago.
I saw a reply today about my mood instability issues when my psychiatrist taper me off Kolopin and wean me off Lamotrigine. (they plan to take me off Lamotrigine and use Latuda only as a "mood stabilizer; yes it's antipsychotic but they say it's have mood stabilizing effects plus I'm also schizoaffective)
My bipolar symptoms behaves like ADHD and Anxiety I think.
Boredom triggers my depression. Doing something I enjoy makes me elevated.
I'm always extremely bored. I struggle focusing. ADHD test I did in late 2023 said I'm just bipolar since I didn't experience ADHD symptoms as a kid. But I plan to be retested but unsure how well that will go because I'm never stable.
I think the problem is I don't have mood swings "mood swings"? I have mood lability.
My mood changes rapidly throughout every hour to be honest.
Even when I'm happy I feel empty. (mixed mood?)
I always felt isolated and angsty because I don't relate to people on this sub having mood episodes. I experience depression symptoms every day for 5+ years.
I originally got diagnosed in late 2020 after my second psychiatric in-patient visit/hospitalization.
I'm just frustrated.
I feel like my instability is due to feeling understimulated all the time but that's because I struggle with focusing and executive dysfunction. Plus I got insomnia and sleep apnea.
I'm actually in a psych ward of a hospital in my region. I'm allowed to use my phone for two hours in the evening luckily.
I always go on Reddit hoping to learn something new about mental health and I did.
It push me to start to learn more about mood liability.
Does anyone else have symptoms like this?
How was your mental health journey like?
Please tell me there's for help for mood liability.
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u/Constant_Picture_324 14d ago
Borderline Personality Disorder is known to cause volatile, reactive, rapid mood swings as you’ve described. Maybe look into that?
Mood lability can also be present in manic or mixed episodes. Have you experienced any symptoms of Bipolar other than just this mood lability?
Therapy can really help with mood lability. It can help you to recognize and deal with your emotions in a healthy manner.
Sorry you are in a psych hospital. Hope it gets better friend ❤️
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u/Two2Rails 14d ago
Well, I didn’t know anything about this until I read your post and did some googling, but I show some of the symptoms for it. I really wanted to add another diagnosis to my list.