Ever since I was a child, I would have emotional outbursts. i have a bad fear of abandonment complete with severe attachment to my fiancée.

i tend to get mad easily and have mood swings, and i used to try not to think the worst of my partner. i was so attached to her, but I’d always think she didn’t like me back or that she’d abandon me one day.

i prepared for that.

now that we’re engaged, I’m still attached, but less negatively.

but it used to be really bad. i’d get mania and depression episodes but i’d also get like that. I know you can’t diagnose here, I’m just wondering for yall’s insight(?)

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    Are your mood changes triggered from within yourself or from external things? Since I was diagnosed with BPD, I’ve come to find that one of the biggest distinctions between it and bipolar is that outside influences trigger mood changes with bpd, but bipolar mood swings are usually “routine” and have cycles.

    So, like, I could be in a good mood but then hear a phrase or a song or smell a smell that triggers me to become angry, or sad, or otherwise change my mood in a split-second.

    However, getting overwhelmed and frustrated and being prone to emotional outbursts because of that are also part of autism, which I have also been diagnosed with. Though it takes a lot of stress to trigger an “overflow” in me, the regular mood swings from just being exposed to external stimuli are more of an everyday issue.