It's all in the mood...

Hmmm....A very wise man once said-"A man is defined by the frequency of variation of his moods and the degree of severity in terms of people affected by these moods...."
(How very true... The saying and the wise man both are very dear to me... )

That apart,I seem to be a living example of the highest degrees of mood swings ever thought possible... And why's that? Beats me.... I've always tried to come up with a logical, rational even psychological explanation to mood swings...

Here's what I could gather from what I've read.... The sudden drop and rise in hormonal levels cause mood swings that occur at certain phases in life (puberty or mid-life)...This was the logical,scientific explanation to mood swings...

But personally,I liked the psychological one... The 5 senses of our body are constantly providing us with inputs... And when you're thinking about something,one of these inputs may derail your train of thought. Now,people may argue that they don't even think about something relevant to the current job being performed... But that's the beauty of it...


These thoughts occur so quickly that it is not possible to pin-point to one input that does the unnecessary. But your mood swings can be controlled and I'm again the living testament to this... Over time,with good amount of observation and reasoning,you can switch off derailing inputs... How? Let me explain...

Let's take a scenario (I love these too much)...You're heading to college in the morning...
En route there,you start to think about a friend...Just from something you recalled or something you saw happening or some other relevant person you saw a little while ago... As you start thinking, something happens....This 'something' is what determines your mood...

Seratonin...Major culprit..This is the hormone that regulates your mood...A low level of this in the body can cause a bad mood...A good level keeps your spirits high... This is physiological...And hence can be easily controlled... Exercise is something that has always brought my seratonin levels up... Other factors that help are- carbohydrate or sugar intake or even good ol' sunlight...

Try to recall your physical condition the last time you had a mood swing.... Hunger or laziness are the possible physiological reasons... A fight or just unvented anger can be the psychological reasons.... Or alternately,you're just at a bad juncture in life...Like someone entering his teens or someone entering mid-life....

I'd be a moron if I were to single these out as the only reasons that cause mood swings... But they are the MAJOR reasons... But as you have probably reasoned by now,all these 'major' factors can be controlled...

As I've come to realise, mood swings are not something that are beyond your control. Blinking, breathing....now these are involuntary... Not a mood swing...

More often than not, a mood swing can cause so much damage to a relationship... Be it your parents,friends,your spouse,your GF/BF.. And the cracks that once appear in a relationship at a weak moment can bring apart the strongest of people...

So please...Let us try to bring control into our lives and our relations... Let's control our MOOD..

The drill is simple-- Consciously observing any kind of mood change before it intensifies, and finding a major reason and then taking action to solve it!

Solve the reason,and you rid yourself of the bad mood...