Controlling Mood Swings in Women

controlling-mood-swings More than 10 million American women are affected by controlling mood swings every year. Mood swings can be frustrating; they not only affect the person experiencing the mood swings but the people around them as well. For a person dealing with mood swings, it can mean avoiding things that they once enjoyed and not being able to fully participate. For family and friends, being around people with mood swings can mean an unstable environment and can be difficult to cope with.

Please read below to find out more about mood swings in women.

What are mood swings in women?

During the natural course of a day it is normal to feel some variation at different times of the day: when you wake up, eat lunch, when you go home from work. Also, when something stressful happens making situations, work or family life more difficult, this is common.

For example, let’s take Paula, a bank teller. She wakes up in the morning feeling refreshed, eats breakfast and often is looking forward to the day. At work she feels bored and restless and agitated. She leaves work and suddenly feels depressed, arrives at home and doesn’t want to communicate. After dinner she feels better and wants to spend time with his family.

All of these symptoms could be related to mood swings in women. It is important to identify mood swings from Bi-Polar disease and other mental illnesses. These illnesses can last for longer periods and have serious health side effects.

What are the causes of mood swings?

mood-swings-messengers Most mood swings in women are brought on by some sort of chemical imbalance. There is no definitive ‘normal’ level; we all have different levels of chemicals and our bodies react in different ways towards those chemicals. Levels of dopamine, neurotransmitters serotonin, norepenephrine, and GABA, are thought to influence mood swings in women.

Researchers have also found that changing hormones can also affected mood swings. Young adolescents can have mood swings when they enter puberty and women can experience mood swings at the beginning menstruation, entering menopause and around menstrual periods.

For women, when either in the pre-menstruation stage of their menstrual cycle or when approaching menopause, the body undergoes significant changes in estrogen levels, as eggs are released from the uterus between a period of 28-35 days. When approaching menstruation, the levels of hormones greatly fluctuate inside a women body to allow for the constriction and the expulsion of the egg.

When approaching menopause, a woman’s body has almost released all the eggs stored in the uterus. The body has no more need for some hormones and as menstruation decreases so do the hormones.

Both of these natural processes affect hormone levels and can lead to mood swings in women.

Treatment for mood swings

mood-swings-bored Changes in our moods happen to all of us and are common as we experience life. Certain situations can make us feel happy or sad or bored or depressed. It is important to feel things emotions as they are a part of life but when these feelings affect other areas of our lives, such as, work, school, friends, family and relationships, mood swings might be present and can make it difficult for you and the people around you to live a normal life.

Life style changes, such as, diet and exercise, spending time with family, doing things you really enjoy, are helpful to maintain well-being and balance. Doing healthy activities will help your body maintain the proper chemicals and support mood swings better.

There are also alternative medicines which have been known to help the body rejuvenate chemicals and well-being. People often turn to these when they don’t have the time or energy to make all of the life style changes.

Lastly, if you have serve mood swings or feel depressed or feel that something is drastically wrong, see your doctor. He can help you find a treatment that works for you.