( Mood right now depressive after sleeping 12 hrs and post-hypoglycemic metabolic weirdness )One thing this mood journal has shown me is that I am extremely sensitive to sleep deprivation AND excessive sleep. It seems mostly causational... that is, on days where I sleep very little (<6 hrs) I am certain to have a +2 mania... on days where I sleep a lot (>9hrs) I am almost always at least -1 depression.
( I'm also pretty sure food affects my cycling. )One of the hallmarks of depression, I've discovered, is emotional reactivity. You know how borderlines and stereotypical "moody women" take ordinary things and contort them into severe insults? I do that a lot when I'm down. I'm moody when I'm down, I'm borderline-like. Except, I'm less energetic so I'm less likely to go on a classic borderline rage... I'm more bitchy instead. Borderline rage is when I'm more energetic with depression. Mixed, equals borderline. That's when I'm accusing people of crazy bullshit and possibly going on insane rages over things I imagined they said to me.
I think it is a serotonin thing.
When I'm up, I'm drunk. Nothing means anything, and in contrast to the hypersensitivity of the depressive/borderline condition, when I'm up I'm oblivious. I'm oblivious and maybe a little delusional. I never reach true self confidence but I am prone to ideas that others are thinking well of me, and even a sense of specialness others can recognize, that is so out of character for me it qualifies as slightly delusional.
It's funny how manic obliviousness and low-serotonin hypersensitivity can both produce delusional ideas. They're just different.
I'm getting very frustrated by my joblessness. No one has responded. It's only been a few days... but please people give me a job. I will be a good nurse, promise. PLZ??
I need to move out of here, really, it is my only hope of getting a life and a future for myself.