Hi Besties, welcome to or welcome back to Try Not To Care.

If you're new here, hello, my name is Ashley, I'm so happy to have you.

Thank you for clicking on this episode and hanging out with me today.

So today we have an advice session.

I feel like I haven't done one in so long.

I used to do one the last Monday of every month.

I kind of like the idea of doing one whenever I feel called to and I was just feeling

called to this week.

I chose questions that I thought would help more than just one person and questions that

I thought would have helped me if I was in high school in college still.

One question that I think I kind of need to talk through right now, maybe I'm struggling

with it a little bit.

So let's get into today's advice session.

Number one, advice on how to handle mood swings.

I really like that you say how to handle mood swings rather than stop them because I don't

think it's realistic to tell you how to stop having mood swings.

They're so automatic, they're so normal.

I would say everyone deals with them.

There's so many factors that contribute to having mood swings, whether that be changes

in your life, new life events, stress, your hormones, your medication.

For me, I experience really intense mood swings when I am dehydrated, when I haven't slept

enough, when I'm not eating enough, like I get so angry when I don't eat enough, like

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