Extreme Mood Swings

Teenager Therapy

Astrolescence & Joy Coalition

Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever gone through phases where you are super productive, you're practicing good habits, and overall you're just feeling amazing? Only for it to be followed by a crash where you're burnt out, you feel depressed, and keep getting hit with crying spells? Yeah... it happens a lot to us too. In this episode, we discuss week-long highs followed by week-long lows, if it's a normal thing, and if we should be talking to a therapist about this. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to Teenage Therapy. I'm Gaya, I'm Thomas. I'm Kayla. I'm Mark.
0:15.8	And welcome back to another episode. If you're new here, welcome. This is a show where
0:21.2	we talk about our feelings and our experiences as teenagers. It's honestly kind of just
0:27.5	a documentation of our teenage experience. Yeah. I was listening to some old episodes. Why?
0:36.3	Yeah, I was listening to all episodes. It like, I was like, dude, we set the most basic shit
0:41.7	and thought we were so profound. Because those are what teenagers do. I know. I never thought
0:48.0	we were profound. Like, ever we just say what needs to be said. I really thought we were.
0:53.1	Yeah. Yeah. We were like at the forefront of like bringing things. I was like, we are literally like,
0:58.8	this is almost poetry. Rupi car boots. Yeah, it wasn't. It was like, if you're sad, like,
1:05.0	I mean, but hey, teens get so bored. There was a time where it was dignified. That's so true.
1:09.9	So we were so, so we were revolutionary. We're like a good year, I'd say. After that, I mean,
1:16.1	yeah. It was cred. No, honestly though, I think it's true. Because I think that is, that was the
1:21.2	teenage experience. Like, even when I went back, like, 15 year olds talked that way. Like, you
1:26.8	don't realize that, yeah, there is a difference in how people talk. Regardless, this episode is all
1:32.8	about highs and lows, highs and lows and the cycle of mood swings. I feel like I have a lot to
1:39.7	say on this topic. I just overcame a week long low. That was actually kind of the hardest I've
1:48.2	been hit for a while. I feel like I've been scared of getting depressed. My whole adolescence.
1:55.2	I'm scared. I'm going to get this is so capitalist. I'm scared of getting depressed because I won't
1:59.0	be, it would be productive. So it's like really scary for me. I'm like, dude, I don't want to get
2:03.6	depressed. My career's going to slow down. What am I going to do? And so I actively do things to
2:09.3	avoid depression. I care for my mental health. And I obviously don't want to be mentally ill.
2:13.6	So I do a lot of things for my mental wellness. I go on walks. I make sure to eat healthy. I
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