Sadly our culture has a high tolerance for this behavior among postpartum women, and accept mood swings,
even severe mood swings, as a normal part of pregnancy or early parenting.
Different from the «baby blues,» postpartum depression can
cause severe mood swings, exhaustion, and a sense of hopelessness.
According to the Mayo Clinic, the symptoms of postpartum depression
include severe mood swings, excessive crying, withdrawal from family and friends, loss of appetite, inability to sleep, and fear that you're not a good mother — among many other seemingly normal things.
Treatment of the mutant mice with lithium — the same drug used by psychiatrists for over half a century to treat patients
with severe mood swings in bipolar disorder — normalizes the number of spines (right).
STATUS: A pilot study completed last year correctly identified episodic changes in six patients with type 1 bipolar disorder, which is characterized
by severe mood swings.
Also, a depressed person is less likely to
show severe mood swings, whereas someone with dementia shows a wider range of emotions and sometimes makes inappropriate emotional responses (e.g., laughing while others are sad).
Postpartum depression — which can
cause severe mood swings, loss of appetite, overwhelming fatigue and lack of joy in life — is sometimes a concern as well.
Some 80 percent of new mothers
experience severe mood swings, known as baby blues, and 10 percent suffer major postpartum depression (PPD) in the first year.
Severe mood swings, feeling hopeless, thoughts of self - harm or harming the baby, and thoughts of suicide should not be overlooked.
Daughter Marcella, 8, had
severe mood swings, and Sydnie, 5, broke out in severe rashes.
If patients»
severe mood swings aren't helped with lithium, doctors often piece together treatment plans with antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants and mood stabilizers.
Kole had a second IUD for only a year, after noticing it was causing
severe mood swings (a possible side effect for hormonal IUDs).
Chronic and
severe mood swings are a psychological disorder, a health problem every bit as real as a physical ailment.
At the time that flew into my inbox I was on it and experiencing
severe mood swings, feeling uncontrollable and very depressed with cycles longer than ever.
I was put on birth control which I later discontinued because I was now always on my period and having
severe mood swings.
Depression during menopause is sometimes linked to
severe mood swings.
For example, if a woman is failing to sleep well, is suffering from night sweats, and has
severe mood swings, these are all likely to affect her libido.
Norman relates the tale of his adolescence, and how his mother Norma's
severe mood swings, psychological abuse, and sexual repression drove him to commit murder, including his own mother.
Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition and many people think that it causes
severe mood swings.