It's the thing I'm trying to work on the most because I've said some mean things to people I care about over the years and even as I'm saying them I regret them :( I usually apologize immediately but obviously I've still hurt people's feelings. And sometimes I make a fool out of myself by crying out of frustration at the worst times. (I'm not using ADHD as an excuse btw; I take full responsibility for my actions.) At least it's getting a bit better as I age, and my family says I'm much better when I'm on ADHD meds. I don't feel different inside but I think I can control how I express my emotions better when medicated, if that makes sense.
I was just going to say that this is why we don't call it "mood" swings and instead call it "emotional dysregulation," because moods are pervasive and global, but ADHD hits us in the feels! Regardless of the name, I too, am not a fan.
The worst part of ADHD mood swings is that it doesn’t even have to be all that bad to make you cry. Someone could just tell you that you shouldn’t do something and you just start crying! ….oorrr that’s just me. :/
Nah I'll cry over the the most random things too. It can be as simple as a teacher asking a question of me that I don't entirely understand, someone mildly reprimanding me for something or like anything going wrong, it's rough out here 😭 people will be shocked that I get upset over some things and it's like yeah! Not sure why I did that either but that's how it be sometimes
For me i don’t not cry I get angry cuz I think you’re calling me stupid but then I look at the situation for what it is and then I’m like oh ok 👍. I started doing this multiple POV thing it’s were I have my pov, the pov of gathered unemotional information, my secondary pov and If possible the other person’s pov that helps me stay on common ground with this person more rather than just giving in to emotional response. You can’t help how you feel but you can control it.
When my mental health is really fragile I get like that, so in those times I try to avoid anything that has a risk of any type of criticism. It doesn't always work, especially if I'm unstable and impulsive.
@@MarianaFerreira27gatoslindosHello! I’m assuming they mean bipolar disorder since that’s a mood disorder. (As opposed to borderline personality disorder, which is also referred to as BPD.) The answer is it can be hard to know. Bipolar type 1 has manic stages too, which makes it a little easier to diagnose. But bipolar type 2 can really look like depression most of the time. It technically still needs hypomanic periods to be diagnosed, but mine were mostly very minimal, and it went ignored for almost a decade. 😞 If your depression is not getting managed adequately by depression medication, you can float the idea of being bipolar by your doctor. Mine isn’t quite convinced, but the thing is, medications for bipolar also often work for depression. So they might be willing to medicate you like you have bipolar, even though they’re not sure that’s your diagnosis. For me, this was a huge game changer - I’m so much more stable. I’m not crying all the time. And I’ve been able to go back to school. I really hope it works out well for you too. ❤
@@ILuvAyeAye thank you I’ve been majorly depressed for a week now I now I had what seemed like hypomania but now I’m just so scared it won’t pass and that it’s major depression
Adhd's mood swings are especially hard to manage with a conservative dad who doesn't understand adhd. My mom tries her best to make it better, but my dad eventually yells at me most of the time, because he doesn't know what to do and thinks I'm just being a brat. Fun
My mum just ends up yelling at me half the time and tells me I'm overreacting But I'm sorry you have to go through that. Good to know your mum is trying her best :)
I hate it when parents know better but give up trying because they’re frustrated :/ like “I know my kid gets upset when I yell, but they’re just not listening!” And then they feel justified in hurting your feelings
My dads the same way. I can’t focus whatsoever in school, which can lead to my grades dropping every so often. My dad is one of those strict parents that if my grade is anything below a B, I get grounded, no matter the reason. I’ve tried explaining hundreds of times, but he just says, “That’s not an excuse, just do the work.” Which I have trouble doing said work. On top of that, I have severe depression and anxiety. The depression has be manageable, but the anxiety is a different story. These are also two things my dad doesn’t understand. I have a lot of trouble ordering at restaurants. It gets so bad that I can have trouble talking of a few minutes afterwards. When it comes to depression, just getting out of bed it hard, much less getting out and doing something. I don’t know if I started rambling at some point. If I did, sorry. I’m gonna be surprised if someone actually reads all of this.
I would say yes to life events causing mood disorders, although it can also be biochemical or unexplained. Many teens experience mood disorders because of hormones, for instance. For BPD, it's often a result of trauma and problematic thinking patterns.
But they also have the option of coming out of the blue. So we're looking at the big differences. For quick identification purposes. Tis survival😭 Source: I have both ADHD and a mood disorder. It's like living in a fun house of triggers and phases.
Dr. Russell Barkley made this point so clear to me when he said emotional disregulation is not a mood disorder because with e.d. it's the correct emotional response to the situation, but at a disproportionate volume. So something happens and, sure anyone would be annoyed, but you're so past annoyed, you're livid. And a few minutes later you chill tf out. I lost a lot of friends before I learned to bite my tongue
That's a great analogy. I've learned over the years to disengage from social media and the news a few hours before bed, because the last thing I need is something making me upset and skyrocketing my blood pressure when I'm supposed to go to sleep. And it can go the other way too. Sometimes a thing that is funny but not really THAT funny will send me into a giggle fit that lasts for much, much longer than it ought to. When I was in 7th grade once I nearly passed out laughing in the library.
Hey I'm bipolar type 1 and this is a lovely little explaination of mood disorders! I would say, though, that very distressing/ stressful life events can act as a trigger for an episode. But I will be using this video to explain for sure xx
It can also be circumstantial in terms of weather, at least for me and some others. I get depressed every fall and go full-blown manic in late Spring/early Summer every year without fail. It's like clockwork. And I still fail to notice the manic episode coming on till it's too late every time 🤦
that's a great point. it's more like bipolar can have episodes NOT AT ALL based on life events and seemingly out of the blue versus other people NOT. adhd will always be reactive to things happening around them. same with other people. they just don't have that "waking up broken" kinda feel, or the impending doom when something is about to shift.
Nice thing about adhd mood swings is being able to control them with music most of the time. Can't control the rage yet, but mostly everything else gets switched back to CALM by music~
Hmm interesting comment, since I am diagnosed with both and, as Others commented, MD can be triggered by Life Events too. But that is an interesting sign to Tell them apart :)
Rage Is a hard one for me too like getting angry for me is like breathing no effort I just do it but idk if you go but I go to church and one day I was listening and the dude said “you must desire love in the same way you desire this evil you want to do”. It took years of trying crap that didn’t work but starting with me not my adhd not my emotions but me truly going out there to make an effort to say yes to love and no to anger even if it hurt say yes to love. The damage I cause with rage is to high a cost but with God walls fall down, doors open, and the impossible becomes possible even taming this wild beast. Just food for thought.
Weirdly, I will listen to rage inducing music to calm down. Screaming along to Rage Against the Machine or System of the Down brings me joy and the rage subsides.
Same here I also have seven other mental disorders that have to do with either behavioral learning emotional or something along that type of line. We as a society call ourselves fun little packages. Mainly because we don't even know what we are or what our emotions are half of the time. So every time I discover something new I'm just like oh that's a new thing
As a parent I am working so hard to understand my son and I am so grateful for stumbling across your content! we do a lot of things wrong but we are really trying to recognize triggers and give him tools and time. I love him so much.
I’m undiagnosed but all of these shorts are worryingly relatable… You’re telling me feeling randomly like dogshit and after like a day I’m back to regularly scheduled programing is like an actual thing and not just me… (And by randomly I mean an extremely small inconvenience that I barely register as a reason to feel so terrible bc the reaction is so disproportionate to what I’m reacting to so I just attribute it to being “nothing” or “random”)
Yup happeneds to me all the time. Like at work two weeks ago I was all torn up about how I will die alone and by lunch in 20 feet in the air putting a roof on a building say I love my life.
Mood disorders can be triggered into an episode by life events though, they don't just come out of the blue either they typically run in a cycle and that cycle can be triggered to one extreme or the other by life events, for example in my case I have rapid cycling bipolar disorder, So I experience mania and extreme depression and on occasion I have mixed episodes, so I have even cycled within the same day when triggered, but I have also been triggered into months or weeks like you said, and life events have definitely quickly triggered me into either extreme , mood disorders definitely are more complicated than this.. is also a spectrum similar to autism and ADHD!
yeah but it’s kinda like the difference bet ween anxiety and panic attacks, one is triggered and the other can be random and/or happen much more often when you’re in a stressful environment especially without treatment
oh, I never knew rapid cycling bipolar was a thing I always just though I had bad mood swings This would explain so much! I rapidly change but I also have weeks of depression and mania and they also mix. but i always doubted myself because it would rapidly change sometimes This explains so much lol
Thank you for this reply! I was also thinking that this explanation was a bit too cookie cutter, but it's better than the usual info given about these disorders.
Yeah it can be triggered or it can come out of the blue. That’s my case. When I get very very little sleep for a couple of day I slip into a hypomanic episode meanwhile depression can really just come out of nowhere
I really love these style of videos. They teach me so much in small amounts of time. It's also reminding me of Thomas Sanders' series SandersSides. If you know, you know
This one actually really helped. I have untreated adult ADHD, and was beginning to worry that maybe I was bipolar or something because I've been swinging between happy (out with friends) and distressed (crashing behind the scenes).
it’s also very similar to bpd which i was recently diagnosed with although bpd is more commonly confused with bipolar. bpd triggers include being triggered by someone close to you or feelings of abandonment. also bpd episodes usually last for a few hours to a few days at most and are usually displayed as a type of panic. also the biggest thing separating mood swings from bpd episodes are that they aren’t actually your mood but feeling emotions too intensely where your body physically and psychologically doesn’t know what to do with it and usually have two sides: a panic/outburst caused from feeling too negatively or euphoric caused by feeling to positively
I'd love to see a further analysis short clip on ADHD mood swings and Borderline "splitting" *mood swings where your thoughts go into black and white thinking: all or nothing. As borderline as a mood disorder is more quick than some other prolongued mood disorders
your comment is cut off (stupid YT bug recently). but that's the thing - splitting is VERY specific to BPD. i call it pedestal versus gutter. it will center around a person or people and the reactive mood is like a defense mechanism. instead of feeling devalued or some other negative emotion (could even be disappointment), it's like yeeting someone out a window as trash or useless or not worth the time. ADHD can have a similar thing, the rejection sensitivity, but the negative emotions are more likely to be felt instead of blasted away by splitting. some people with BPD don't even totally notice the flip, it can happen so fast. they can also feel like they just changed their mind about someone or lost interest. BUT, like with ADHD (and bipolar, to be honest) BPD can have mood swings just based on events or things happening. all 3 can. the only difference is that bipolar has the additional layer of overall mood states. and this other thing is a layer on top of it. BPD generally has the instability with relationships to a greater extent than the other two, though bipolar can show some of this. depends on the person. BPD will usually have a 'favorite person', who gets the bulk of attention and focus. and there is often a 'wanting to be everyone's number 1, even if those people aren't theirs.' i have an intimate knowledge of all 3 of these things: BPD, Bipolar, ADHD. i won't go into details but people close to me as well as myself have an array.
I have ADHD and BPD, it's nice seeing someone explaining the difference between them. Although with BPD there's rapid cycling so it's changes alottt but it's definitely rarely triggered by something. I could be having the best day of my life and still get depressive mood swings.
Love this! Just one pount - mood disorders can be gradually triggered by ongoing crap life situation. Ppl dismiss depression if they habe a reason to be down - but if its doing all the things described in this video - not going away quickly at all, not better with a change in attention to something new.
Wait this exactly what I needed, I was thinking I had bpd but this makes more sense ( I am diagnosed with ADHD don’t come after me) I’ve been experiencing this for the last few weeks
So amazing of you to actually bring understanding and teaching to people😊 it's really important for mental health to be talked about and taught. Thank you🙏
This channel is so fun to see how my sisters stuff interacts together. She has BPD, bi-polar disorder, AND ADHD. She also has substance use issues. I love that girl and she's a huge part of why I am going to school for what I am going to school for, but damn she can be challenging to be around at times.
omg i have ADHD and borderline too! it’s tough as hell even though i got lucky and didn’t get any of the addictive behaviors with substances, sex and parties/validation, i don’t know how cause it runs in my family lol my brother is going through it right now and he’s a nightmare!! mom is trying to force him to get treated but idk
I got BPD and ADHD diagnosed as an adult. It’s very chaotic but I’m making it work. Mood stabilizers and Ritalin bring a lot of peace to my mind thankfully. Helps separate the irregular moods from the triggers
And anti-convulsants can benefit both. My doc and I thought I had BD Type 2, mixed episodes. Got put on Lamictal. Still on Lamictal because it has helped with emotion regulation. Now though... well, since I've worked with SpEd 9th and 10th graders, I've learn a lot about ADHD and Autism... I definitely have ADHD. So I switched my second medication (Lexapro) to Wellbutrin since I don't have a proper diagnosis for ADHD. It used to treat ADHD and has helped with some of the hyperactivity. However, it is not comparable to Adderall at all. It was a night and day sifference.
Are...are you me lol? Got put on lamictal because they thought/think I might have BD Type 2 or cyclothymia. Then got put on wellbutrin because of bad depression but now getting evaluated for ADHD.
@@mkat8505 I can't speak to effects, but wellbutrin is an NDRI (norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitor). Adderall is similar but it composed of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, which act like dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine. I've heard Wellbutrin be called Adderall Lite - that meaning it _can_ perform similarly to Adderall but it may not be as potent
As someone with BPD, I'm not sure this is accurate. My intense moodswings are predominantly in reaction to a life event. I do also have ADHD but there are also so many mood disorders it would be difficult to accurately depict them all with one broad term.
For me my main problem is self destruction so when I get super depressed I have a tendency to make it 1000% worse for myself. It's really hard to pull yourself out of depression as a person with adhd
Definitely true. When I have periods where I'm depressed, they only last a week max, but they make up for it with how intense they are, and are usually kickstarted by my RSD.
I'm so mad because your videos point out symptoms I've had for years but never got treated for, and now that I'm finally diagnosed I just wish I knew this all before.
Holy sheep shizzle. Didju get an owner's manual with your brain? Mine was ABSENT! Your ability to breakdown and make this crazed disorder digestible and understandable is freakin' AMAZING!!! Thanks for being such an intellectual bad ass Olivia!!!!!🙏🙌❤️
Having both, this was very helpful in making it easier to identify the difference in what emotions are my ADHD and what are my other diagnoses. It sucks having ADHD combined with a multitude of other things, but it’s nice to know there’s reasons for all their effects and I’m not just bonkers when sometimes I will have months of depressive episodes without a trigger and then other times change moods like traffic lights over small events.
As someone who thinks they have adhd and if a visual learner id just like to say i really love how in these videos you make the disorder/medical condition or whatever people and make them speak and have a conversation it keeps my interest way more than an old man in a doctors office talking with a dull voice.
My husband has always been so understanding even before we knew I had ADHD. He usually knows something’s up before I do and he usually says “You’re either hungry, tired, or overwhelmed so let’s figure out which one it is and then fit it”. Literally I am ready to burn the world down and then I realise nooooo it’s just the music in the supermarket was too loud.
Holy shit I have ADHD and get mood swings like that a lot and I’ve always just thought I was a bitch when I would get a mood swing like that. Your channel has helped me figure myself out even better because when I was diagnosed I was just told “you have ADHD and struggle to focus on things”. Thank you so much keep up the great work!!
@@TacticalDraws OK :) I must have been led astray by the 'i Had No idea' and present tense 'it's so frustrating' and Just wanted to Note what other comments replied to the content of the Video - in Case you hadnt Seen those and now, Just because of the Video, assumed you were misdiagosed.
I am learning soo much. My fiance has ADHD undiagnozed, he has had a very difficult life. I did Therapy for a year and suggested therapy and medication. I hope i can be a better support and your videos help me out tremendeously. THANK YOU
Thankyou, that really helps to clarify what the differences are and why it’s more relatable for some of us that don’t know all the ins and outs of these yet and why they’re so different.
Thank God for the internet. I was diagnosed with ADHD about 5 years ago / in my mid-30s and this is the first time I'm learning about ADHD mood swings and it explains a whole lot! I think I might need to do some more research on this. Thank you!!
Oh my, I actually wasn't aware of ADHD mood swings despite living through episodes that clearly define it. Thank you so much for helping me identify this. Note to other viewers, even "functional" adults still need help and can learn.
Having both is so much fun. Lol 🤣 Great explanation though. My day to day moods shift a lot because of adhd but then I also have depressive episodes that have nothing to do with what’s happening, so great explanation.
I’m super proud of myself last night for changing my perception of two big triggers. It was not easy. It took me 17 hours yesterday before I could change my perception so that I could think healthy thoughts instead of narcissistic thoughts. No one should let narcissist qualities fill them up. Try to get rid of them as soon as possible. 😊 Be vulnerable with yourselves and with your loved ones. It’s the only way back. -Brené Brown, from her Netflix special
Thanks for all your content my has ADHD and I never understood much but when I found you and your videos I knew what to do how to deal and understand him with it and have become a better brother in the process
i remember when i thought i might of had a mood disorder. then i watched this video. i got diagnosed with adhd not that long afterwards. thank you for this and many other videos, they seriously help me♥️♥️
This is great. I refer to myself as riding on a mood carrousel as my moods change and determine what I'm interested in that day. I can be "all-in" one day and wonder what the heck I was thinking the next day. Projects sit idle until the carrousel comes back around to it and then all-in again.
Your videos are accurate to adhd- I'm extremely happy that I'm not alone with my ADHD and people can be successful even with it. Your videos always make me feel better about my differences
I have only recently started watching your videos. The more that I watch, the more that I find myself recognising patterns of behaviour in myself. I always thought that you had to be hyperactive to present symptoms of ADHD. Thanks to your videos I am going to visit my doctor.
One moment I think I'm so depressed I'll never be happy again and 5 minutes later I get some mochi ice cream with a hug and it's like I've never met depression before in my life, I've always been happy 😂
Woahhh, this channel is so eye opening for me. I'm im high school and my mom never told me I was diagnosed until a few weeks ago and said it didn't count because it was a mild case. Seeing this channel and things that come with ADHD has helped me explain a lot of things because I was always so frustrated because of all these things happening that I couldn't explain and now I know they are all things that come with ADHD!
Ha this is similar to me, my parents really wanted to ignore it when I was first diagnosed... my initial diagnosis was PDD-NOS which is sometimes considered "mild autism" so I think that made it easier to ignore things. Now I have full ADHD and Autism diagnoses. x.x It's really unhelpful when parents do this, I understand why it might feel terrifying and overwhelming for a parent to hear that their child is going to have way more struggles than average, but also your kid is depending on you! Figure it out! Also, more often than not at least one parent has strong traits of a neurodivergent condition even if they're not diagnosed, so whatever their kid is experiencing could just seem normal. My dad was like "what do you mean she's on the autistic spectrum she's not she's just like me" and Dad... I have news for you...
Just want to let you know I’m 20, I just got diagnosed with ADHD, and your videos have been so relieving to watch. I finally know why I do something or why I feel a certain way. It’s completely changed my life. Thank you!
Your channel has helped me learn so much about ADHD. One of my best friends lives with ADHD and not only has it helped me understand how to support her better, but also raised awareness to myself and how I very well could be dealing with the same thing. Thank you for opening up and contributing such helpful content!!!
It's really fun having both because you get into this cycle of looking helplessly for your trigger when it's not been triggered at all, leading to a very late realization that it's the mood disorder not the ADHD. And then when it's the ADHD mood swing you tend to just....assume you're stuck for a while because you can't remember the trigger that happened...
God, one thing my family has never understood is my struggle with regulating my emotions. I dont feel like they understand that even small things that upset me dont feel small to me. Like, i mess up and lose a game and when they tease me im aware that they dont mean it in a bad way, theyre just having fun but it feels horrible and i cant let them know cb theyd just call me over dramatic
I'll break down crying, then get distracted by a shiny rock.
i relate to this on a spiritual level
@@SleeplessExtrovertyeah , you broke the limits of being relatable 😭
Or I cuddled into a soft blanket :)
@@KaiTheMemeKing when you dont have a soft blanket ಥ_ಥ
@@SleeplessExtrovert*hugs*
The emotional regulation part of ADHD is a bitch!
Ikr
Like istg it's so annoying especially when I look back at it
I fully agree
Facts
It's the thing I'm trying to work on the most because I've said some mean things to people I care about over the years and even as I'm saying them I regret them :( I usually apologize immediately but obviously I've still hurt people's feelings. And sometimes I make a fool out of myself by crying out of frustration at the worst times. (I'm not using ADHD as an excuse btw; I take full responsibility for my actions.)
At least it's getting a bit better as I age, and my family says I'm much better when I'm on ADHD meds. I don't feel different inside but I think I can control how I express my emotions better when medicated, if that makes sense.
I was just going to say that this is why we don't call it "mood" swings and instead call it "emotional dysregulation," because moods are pervasive and global, but ADHD hits us in the feels! Regardless of the name, I too, am not a fan.
The worst part of ADHD mood swings is that it doesn’t even have to be all that bad to make you cry. Someone could just tell you that you shouldn’t do something and you just start crying!
….oorrr that’s just me. :/
Nah I'll cry over the the most random things too. It can be as simple as a teacher asking a question of me that I don't entirely understand, someone mildly reprimanding me for something or like anything going wrong, it's rough out here 😭 people will be shocked that I get upset over some things and it's like yeah! Not sure why I did that either but that's how it be sometimes
Definitely not just you...
For me i don’t not cry I get angry cuz I think you’re calling me stupid but then I look at the situation for what it is and then I’m like oh ok 👍. I started doing this multiple POV thing it’s were I have my pov, the pov of gathered unemotional information, my secondary pov and If possible the other person’s pov that helps me stay on common ground with this person more rather than just giving in to emotional response. You can’t help how you feel but you can control it.
@@charizardsniper5064 great that that works for you but no I cannot control the crying my brother in christ
When my mental health is really fragile I get like that, so in those times I try to avoid anything that has a risk of any type of criticism. It doesn't always work, especially if I'm unstable and impulsive.
Id also like to mention that in BPD, mood swings can chang rapidly and in response to life events. ADHD and BPD often overlap.
HI how can I distinguish If I have depression or just bpd? tahnl you really need help here
I was about to mention about bpd too! I have it and it can suck but her description of mood disorders matches bipolar which I also have lol
@@asllilly5896 I also suspect I have both
@@MarianaFerreira27gatoslindosHello! I’m assuming they mean bipolar disorder since that’s a mood disorder. (As opposed to borderline personality disorder, which is also referred to as BPD.)
The answer is it can be hard to know. Bipolar type 1 has manic stages too, which makes it a little easier to diagnose. But bipolar type 2 can really look like depression most of the time. It technically still needs hypomanic periods to be diagnosed, but mine were mostly very minimal, and it went ignored for almost a decade. 😞
If your depression is not getting managed adequately by depression medication, you can float the idea of being bipolar by your doctor. Mine isn’t quite convinced, but the thing is, medications for bipolar also often work for depression. So they might be willing to medicate you like you have bipolar, even though they’re not sure that’s your diagnosis. For me, this was a huge game changer - I’m so much more stable. I’m not crying all the time. And I’ve been able to go back to school.
I really hope it works out well for you too. ❤
@@ILuvAyeAye thank you I’ve been majorly depressed for a week now I now I had what seemed like hypomania but now I’m just so scared it won’t pass and that it’s major depression
Adhd's mood swings are especially hard to manage with a conservative dad who doesn't understand adhd. My mom tries her best to make it better, but my dad eventually yells at me most of the time, because he doesn't know what to do and thinks I'm just being a brat. Fun
My mum just ends up yelling at me half the time and tells me I'm overreacting
But I'm sorry you have to go through that. Good to know your mum is trying her best :)
@lily hawley yea, it ends up in a huge argument and it makes it so much worse, sorry you go through that too
I hate it when parents know better but give up trying because they’re frustrated :/ like “I know my kid gets upset when I yell, but they’re just not listening!” And then they feel justified in hurting your feelings
How did you describe my life so perfectly 😶
My dads the same way. I can’t focus whatsoever in school, which can lead to my grades dropping every so often. My dad is one of those strict parents that if my grade is anything below a B, I get grounded, no matter the reason. I’ve tried explaining hundreds of times, but he just says, “That’s not an excuse, just do the work.” Which I have trouble doing said work. On top of that, I have severe depression and anxiety. The depression has be manageable, but the anxiety is a different story. These are also two things my dad doesn’t understand. I have a lot of trouble ordering at restaurants. It gets so bad that I can have trouble talking of a few minutes afterwards. When it comes to depression, just getting out of bed it hard, much less getting out and doing something. I don’t know if I started rambling at some point. If I did, sorry. I’m gonna be surprised if someone actually reads all of this.
I have a mood disorder and I wouldn't say this is accurate. It can 100% be triggered by life events and often is.
I have bpd and definitely agree
Edit: ig technically it's a personality disorder but still
I would say yes to life events causing mood disorders, although it can also be biochemical or unexplained. Many teens experience mood disorders because of hormones, for instance. For BPD, it's often a result of trauma and problematic thinking patterns.
But they also have the option of coming out of the blue.
So we're looking at the big differences. For quick identification purposes. Tis survival😭
Source: I have both ADHD and a mood disorder. It's like living in a fun house of triggers and phases.
Could they be like only one day or like are they really long
@@itoshiibaka8267 trigger =/= cause tho
Something can have a biochemical cause but still be triggered by life events
Dr. Russell Barkley made this point so clear to me when he said emotional disregulation is not a mood disorder because with e.d. it's the correct emotional response to the situation, but at a disproportionate volume. So something happens and, sure anyone would be annoyed, but you're so past annoyed, you're livid. And a few minutes later you chill tf out. I lost a lot of friends before I learned to bite my tongue
That's a great analogy. I've learned over the years to disengage from social media and the news a few hours before bed, because the last thing I need is something making me upset and skyrocketing my blood pressure when I'm supposed to go to sleep.
And it can go the other way too. Sometimes a thing that is funny but not really THAT funny will send me into a giggle fit that lasts for much, much longer than it ought to. When I was in 7th grade once I nearly passed out laughing in the library.
Hey I'm bipolar type 1 and this is a lovely little explaination of mood disorders! I would say, though, that very distressing/ stressful life events can act as a trigger for an episode. But I will be using this video to explain for sure xx
It can also be circumstantial in terms of weather, at least for me and some others. I get depressed every fall and go full-blown manic in late Spring/early Summer every year without fail. It's like clockwork. And I still fail to notice the manic episode coming on till it's too late every time 🤦
that's a great point. it's more like bipolar can have episodes NOT AT ALL based on life events and seemingly out of the blue versus other people NOT.
adhd will always be reactive to things happening around them. same with other people. they just don't have that "waking up broken" kinda feel, or the impending doom when something is about to shift.
Nice thing about adhd mood swings is being able to control them with music most of the time. Can't control the rage yet, but mostly everything else gets switched back to CALM by music~
Hmm interesting comment, since I am diagnosed with both and, as Others commented, MD can be triggered by Life Events too. But that is an interesting sign to Tell them apart :)
Rage Is a hard one for me too like getting angry for me is like breathing no effort I just do it but idk if you go but I go to church and one day I was listening and the dude said “you must desire love in the same way you desire this evil you want to do”. It took years of trying crap that didn’t work but starting with me not my adhd not my emotions but me truly going out there to make an effort to say yes to love and no to anger even if it hurt say yes to love. The damage I cause with rage is to high a cost but with God walls fall down, doors open, and the impossible becomes possible even taming this wild beast. Just food for thought.
music either puts me in a depressive spiral or a manic mood. depending on the song.
Weirdly, I will listen to rage inducing music to calm down. Screaming along to Rage Against the Machine or System of the Down brings me joy and the rage subsides.
Same music is my saviour
Yeahhhh… I have bipolar and ADHD so that’s fun. But I’m glad you’re bringing awareness to the differences!
chronic depression and adhd *high five*
Same here I also have seven other mental disorders that have to do with either behavioral learning emotional or something along that type of line. We as a society call ourselves fun little packages. Mainly because we don't even know what we are or what our emotions are half of the time. So every time I discover something new I'm just like oh that's a new thing
i have ADHD and borderline 🫠
Yea, I'm getting diagnosed soon but we're all pretty sure I have ADHD and some sort of depression along with panic and autism disorder😭
Fun😃😭
adhd, asd, ocd, depression, anxiety, ed, ^and so much more!!!^
As a parent I am working so hard to understand my son and I am so grateful for stumbling across your content! we do a lot of things wrong but we are really trying to recognize triggers and give him tools and time. I love him so much.
The fact that you are researching tools for him is amazing! Great job mama! 🎉🎉🎉
Your an good mom, good job 👍
I’m undiagnosed but all of these shorts are worryingly relatable…
You’re telling me feeling randomly like dogshit and after like a day I’m back to regularly scheduled programing is like an actual thing and not just me…
(And by randomly I mean an extremely small inconvenience that I barely register as a reason to feel so terrible bc the reaction is so disproportionate to what I’m reacting to so I just attribute it to being “nothing” or “random”)
Yup happeneds to me all the time. Like at work two weeks ago I was all torn up about how I will die alone and by lunch in 20 feet in the air putting a roof on a building say I love my life.
relatable
Mood disorders can be triggered into an episode by life events though, they don't just come out of the blue either they typically run in a cycle and that cycle can be triggered to one extreme or the other by life events, for example in my case I have rapid cycling bipolar disorder, So I experience mania and extreme depression and on occasion I have mixed episodes, so I have even cycled within the same day when triggered, but I have also been triggered into months or weeks like you said, and life events have definitely quickly triggered me into either extreme , mood disorders definitely are more complicated than this.. is also a spectrum similar to autism and ADHD!
This ^
yeah but it’s kinda like the difference bet ween anxiety and panic attacks, one is triggered and the other can be random and/or happen much more often when you’re in a stressful environment especially without treatment
oh, I never knew rapid cycling bipolar was a thing
I always just though I had bad mood swings
This would explain so much!
I rapidly change but I also have weeks of depression and mania and they also mix. but i always doubted myself because it would rapidly change sometimes
This explains so much lol
Thank you for this reply! I was also thinking that this explanation was a bit too cookie cutter, but it's better than the usual info given about these disorders.
Yeah it can be triggered or it can come out of the blue. That’s my case. When I get very very little sleep for a couple of day I slip into a hypomanic episode meanwhile depression can really just come out of nowhere
I really love these style of videos. They teach me so much in small amounts of time. It's also reminding me of Thomas Sanders' series SandersSides. If you know, you know
Love Thomas so much
Fanders in the wild spotted!!!
Ooooooh....this explains it very well. Mine stems from frustration and overstimulation. ADHD & ASD disregulation FTW
I get mad, then happy within 5 seconds. LOL!! 😁👍
This is helpful, Im always wondering if I have mood disorder cause I’m always so damn moody but it does go away quickly
This one actually really helped. I have untreated adult ADHD, and was beginning to worry that maybe I was bipolar or something because I've been swinging between happy (out with friends) and distressed (crashing behind the scenes).
BRUH I had no IDEA ADHD gave mood swings!!! This explains everything 😭😭😭
it’s also very similar to bpd which i was recently diagnosed with although bpd is more commonly confused with bipolar. bpd triggers include being triggered by someone close to you or feelings of abandonment. also bpd episodes usually last for a few hours to a few days at most and are usually displayed as a type of panic. also the biggest thing separating mood swings from bpd episodes are that they aren’t actually your mood but feeling emotions too intensely where your body physically and psychologically doesn’t know what to do with it and usually have two sides: a panic/outburst caused from feeling too negatively or euphoric caused by feeling to positively
I feel like, in a way, bpd is rapid cycling bipolar and ADHD in one (I have bpd too)
yeah i think the rapid cycling can look the same as the adhd. funny enough, some people with bipolar can rapid cycle.
YES that is exactly how it is, if you need a time frame the absolute longest I've experienced an ADHD mood swing is around an hour
I'd love to see a further analysis short clip on ADHD mood swings and Borderline "splitting" *mood swings where your thoughts go into black and white thinking: all or nothing. As borderline as a mood disorder is more quick than some other prolongued mood disorders
your comment is cut off (stupid YT bug recently). but that's the thing - splitting is VERY specific to BPD. i call it pedestal versus gutter. it will center around a person or people and the reactive mood is like a defense mechanism. instead of feeling devalued or some other negative emotion (could even be disappointment), it's like yeeting someone out a window as trash or useless or not worth the time.
ADHD can have a similar thing, the rejection sensitivity, but the negative emotions are more likely to be felt instead of blasted away by splitting. some people with BPD don't even totally notice the flip, it can happen so fast. they can also feel like they just changed their mind about someone or lost interest.
BUT, like with ADHD (and bipolar, to be honest) BPD can have mood swings just based on events or things happening. all 3 can. the only difference is that bipolar has the additional layer of overall mood states. and this other thing is a layer on top of it.
BPD generally has the instability with relationships to a greater extent than the other two, though bipolar can show some of this. depends on the person. BPD will usually have a 'favorite person', who gets the bulk of attention and focus. and there is often a 'wanting to be everyone's number 1, even if those people aren't theirs.'
i have an intimate knowledge of all 3 of these things: BPD, Bipolar, ADHD. i won't go into details but people close to me as well as myself have an array.
I have ADHD and BPD, it's nice seeing someone explaining the difference between them. Although with BPD there's rapid cycling so it's changes alottt but it's definitely rarely triggered by something. I could be having the best day of my life and still get depressive mood swings.
I love how you break down the differences, so eloquently yet easy to understand!!!
Love this! Just one pount - mood disorders can be gradually triggered by ongoing crap life situation. Ppl dismiss depression if they habe a reason to be down - but if its doing all the things described in this video - not going away quickly at all, not better with a change in attention to something new.
Thanks for making this actually!!
I'm binge watching all of your videos while rocking back and forth
I'd love it if you talked about bpd vs adhd too.
Well, the mood disorder one really depends on the disorder.
Wait this exactly what I needed, I was thinking I had bpd but this makes more sense ( I am diagnosed with ADHD don’t come after me) I’ve been experiencing this for the last few weeks
When did you get diagnosed?
you may have both tho
Think of our mood swings like this:
BAM! BAM! Done.
At times I give myself emotional whiplash :-)
So amazing of you to actually bring understanding and teaching to people😊 it's really important for mental health to be talked about and taught. Thank you🙏
This channel is so fun to see how my sisters stuff interacts together. She has BPD, bi-polar disorder, AND ADHD. She also has substance use issues. I love that girl and she's a huge part of why I am going to school for what I am going to school for, but damn she can be challenging to be around at times.
omg i have ADHD and borderline too! it’s tough as hell even though i got lucky and didn’t get any of the addictive behaviors with substances, sex and parties/validation, i don’t know how cause it runs in my family lol
my brother is going through it right now and he’s a nightmare!! mom is trying to force him to get treated but idk
I got BPD and ADHD diagnosed as an adult. It’s very chaotic but I’m making it work. Mood stabilizers and Ritalin bring a lot of peace to my mind thankfully. Helps separate the irregular moods from the triggers
And anti-convulsants can benefit both. My doc and I thought I had BD Type 2, mixed episodes. Got put on Lamictal. Still on Lamictal because it has helped with emotion regulation. Now though... well, since I've worked with SpEd 9th and 10th graders, I've learn a lot about ADHD and Autism... I definitely have ADHD. So I switched my second medication (Lexapro) to Wellbutrin since I don't have a proper diagnosis for ADHD. It used to treat ADHD and has helped with some of the hyperactivity. However, it is not comparable to Adderall at all. It was a night and day sifference.
Are...are you me lol? Got put on lamictal because they thought/think I might have BD Type 2 or cyclothymia. Then got put on wellbutrin because of bad depression but now getting evaluated for ADHD.
My doctor thinks I might have bpd, I was put on lamictal once but I developed an allergic reaction to it :/
What is the difference of experience between Wellbutrin and Adderall?
@@mkat8505 I can't speak to effects, but wellbutrin is an NDRI (norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitor). Adderall is similar but it composed of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, which act like dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine. I've heard Wellbutrin be called Adderall Lite - that meaning it _can_ perform similarly to Adderall but it may not be as potent
Thank you for your content! It helped me understand my ADHD daughter and possibly determine if I have ADHD decades into adulthood
I cry from being frustrated, then I get frustrated at crying
...it's a frikin' circle
As someone with BPD, I'm not sure this is accurate. My intense moodswings are predominantly in reaction to a life event. I do also have ADHD but there are also so many mood disorders it would be difficult to accurately depict them all with one broad term.
I can get mad easily but forget about it easily. I control myself more with friends. I hardly get mad at close friends
It makes me want to be sad at a funeral or something but it’s so hard not to think of anything else.
For me my main problem is self destruction so when I get super depressed I have a tendency to make it 1000% worse for myself. It's really hard to pull yourself out of depression as a person with adhd
I usually feel better after a nap, or just changing my environment.
What's really fun is having them both going on, simultaneously.
Definitely true. When I have periods where I'm depressed, they only last a week max, but they make up for it with how intense they are, and are usually kickstarted by my RSD.
I can't believe how accurate this is!!!! I never thought of it like this before!!! Thank you
my BPD, ADHD ass watching this: this all makes sense but simultaneously makes my feelings feel more confusing
I'm so mad because your videos point out symptoms I've had for years but never got treated for, and now that I'm finally diagnosed I just wish I knew this all before.
Holy sheep shizzle. Didju get an owner's manual with your brain? Mine was ABSENT! Your ability to breakdown and make this crazed disorder digestible and understandable is freakin' AMAZING!!! Thanks for being such an intellectual bad ass Olivia!!!!!🙏🙌❤️
As a psych professional, I REALLY APPRECIATE your breakdown ❤
Which is why I can’t have a grudge against someone for more than 24 hours.
i’ve had a hunch for a while now, but this channel is *convincing* me that hunch is a bigger concern than i realized 😖😫
Having both, this was very helpful in making it easier to identify the difference in what emotions are my ADHD and what are my other diagnoses. It sucks having ADHD combined with a multitude of other things, but it’s nice to know there’s reasons for all their effects and I’m not just bonkers when sometimes I will have months of depressive episodes without a trigger and then other times change moods like traffic lights over small events.
this channel is doing more for me in 60’s than thousands of dollars and years of therapy 😭😭😭
As someone who thinks they have adhd and if a visual learner id just like to say i really love how in these videos you make the disorder/medical condition or whatever people and make them speak and have a conversation it keeps my interest way more than an old man in a doctors office talking with a dull voice.
I SWEAR I HAVE ADHD AND JUST NEED TO GET CHECKED! Literally everything you post I relate to!!
My husband has always been so understanding even before we knew I had ADHD. He usually knows something’s up before I do and he usually says “You’re either hungry, tired, or overwhelmed so let’s figure out which one it is and then fit it”. Literally I am ready to burn the world down and then I realise nooooo it’s just the music in the supermarket was too loud.
Holy shit I have ADHD and get mood swings like that a lot and I’ve always just thought I was a bitch when I would get a mood swing like that. Your channel has helped me figure myself out even better because when I was diagnosed I was just told “you have ADHD and struggle to focus on things”. Thank you so much keep up the great work!!
I have ADD not ADHD but a lot of your videos have been helping me understand a lot more about it all.
Thank you for bringing this point up, I had no idea. I'd been misdiagnosed with a mood disorder and it's so frustrating
Other comments said mood disorders can be triggered by Life Events as Well though.
@@chronischgeheilt I have ADHD
@@TacticalDraws OK :) I must have been led astray by the 'i Had No idea' and present tense 'it's so frustrating' and Just wanted to Note what other comments replied to the content of the Video - in Case you hadnt Seen those and now, Just because of the Video, assumed you were misdiagosed.
God bless you for making these videos. Ppl dont understand us and what we go thru
I am learning soo much. My fiance has ADHD undiagnozed, he has had a very difficult life. I did Therapy for a year and suggested therapy and medication. I hope i can be a better support and your videos help me out tremendeously. THANK YOU
Thankyou, that really helps to clarify what the differences are and why it’s more relatable for some of us that don’t know all the ins and outs of these yet and why they’re so different.
Thank God for the internet. I was diagnosed with ADHD about 5 years ago / in my mid-30s and this is the first time I'm learning about ADHD mood swings and it explains a whole lot! I think I might need to do some more research on this. Thank you!!
You've helped me learn A LOT about my ADHD that I thought was other things other than ADHD so thank you
You. Are. Amazing. Perfect video, Tysm for giving more adhd recognition and clearing up topics like this
Thank you, this was informative. There are so many psychological disorders, I cannot keep up. Bottom line, when struggling, reach out and get help.
Oh my, I actually wasn't aware of ADHD mood swings despite living through episodes that clearly define it. Thank you so much for helping me identify this.
Note to other viewers, even "functional" adults still need help and can learn.
This is why I can’t stay mad at anyone, I do something else and I completely forget what they did
Having both is so much fun. Lol 🤣 Great explanation though. My day to day moods shift a lot because of adhd but then I also have depressive episodes that have nothing to do with what’s happening, so great explanation.
educating the world on ADHD in a way that is easy to understand and friendly. truly amazing
I have so much adhd that I would love captions on this channel.
As somebody with a mood disorder that part of it was spot on
I’m super proud of myself last night for changing my perception of two big triggers.
It was not easy. It took me 17 hours yesterday before I could change my perception so that I could think healthy thoughts instead of narcissistic thoughts.
No one should let narcissist qualities fill them up. Try to get rid of them as soon as possible. 😊
Be vulnerable with yourselves and with your loved ones. It’s the only way back. -Brené Brown, from her Netflix special
I'm always so happy when someone reminds me about how the ADHD mood swings are completely normal and that I'm not alone.
I feel so called out for every ADHD video you make 😂
Thank you a lot for your videos, they help me understand and have sympathy with myself.
Thanks for all your content my has ADHD and I never understood much but when I found you and your videos I knew what to do how to deal and understand him with it and have become a better brother in the process
I've had one in the middle of class (ADHD), but it almost immediately went away because we got the homework 😆
i remember when i thought i might of had a mood disorder. then i watched this video. i got diagnosed with adhd not that long afterwards. thank you for this and many other videos, they seriously help me♥️♥️
I wish she was my science teacher, she’d be able to explain these things and make them FINALLY MAKE SENSE!
I personally laugh at random times because I remember something funny so it comes along with my ADHD your so helpful!!
This is great. I refer to myself as riding on a mood carrousel as my moods change and determine what I'm interested in that day. I can be "all-in" one day and wonder what the heck I was thinking the next day. Projects sit idle until the carrousel comes back around to it and then all-in again.
Ty so much for making these videos. We think I have adhd and these help me understand what’s going on
The early 00's Buffy vibes I'm getting from this is giving me life!
Your videos are accurate to adhd- I'm extremely happy that I'm not alone with my ADHD and people can be successful even with it. Your videos always make me feel better about my differences
It's really fun when you've got both.
I have only recently started watching your videos. The more that I watch, the more that I find myself recognising patterns of behaviour in myself. I always thought that you had to be hyperactive to present symptoms of ADHD. Thanks to your videos I am going to visit my doctor.
At this point, I feel like if we compile together all of the TikToks from this channel, we could make a legit academic textbook on understanding ADHD.
Im actually crying watching you explain my life problems that no one we ever could before ❤❤❤ thank you
One moment I think I'm so depressed I'll never be happy again and 5 minutes later I get some mochi ice cream with a hug and it's like I've never met depression before in my life, I've always been happy 😂
Doing the lords work in helping people understand each other and themselves
As someone who also has ADHD, I love your content!
one of the reasons I hate having adhd sometimes
Woahhh, this channel is so eye opening for me. I'm im high school and my mom never told me I was diagnosed until a few weeks ago and said it didn't count because it was a mild case. Seeing this channel and things that come with ADHD has helped me explain a lot of things because I was always so frustrated because of all these things happening that I couldn't explain and now I know they are all things that come with ADHD!
Ha this is similar to me, my parents really wanted to ignore it when I was first diagnosed... my initial diagnosis was PDD-NOS which is sometimes considered "mild autism" so I think that made it easier to ignore things. Now I have full ADHD and Autism diagnoses. x.x It's really unhelpful when parents do this, I understand why it might feel terrifying and overwhelming for a parent to hear that their child is going to have way more struggles than average, but also your kid is depending on you! Figure it out!
Also, more often than not at least one parent has strong traits of a neurodivergent condition even if they're not diagnosed, so whatever their kid is experiencing could just seem normal. My dad was like "what do you mean she's on the autistic spectrum she's not she's just like me" and Dad... I have news for you...
THIS CHANNEL IS SO FUN AND SO EDUCATIONAL BRUUUUH
Just want to let you know I’m 20, I just got diagnosed with ADHD, and your videos have been so relieving to watch. I finally know why I do something or why I feel a certain way. It’s completely changed my life. Thank you!
Every single video of yours I watch makes me consider whether I have ADHD or not, was gonna make a doctors appointment but forgot about it hahahaha
Your channel has helped me learn so much about ADHD. One of my best friends lives with ADHD and not only has it helped me understand how to support her better, but also raised awareness to myself and how I very well could be dealing with the same thing. Thank you for opening up and contributing such helpful content!!!
It's really fun having both because you get into this cycle of looking helplessly for your trigger when it's not been triggered at all, leading to a very late realization that it's the mood disorder not the ADHD. And then when it's the ADHD mood swing you tend to just....assume you're stuck for a while because you can't remember the trigger that happened...
God, one thing my family has never understood is my struggle with regulating my emotions. I dont feel like they understand that even small things that upset me dont feel small to me. Like, i mess up and lose a game and when they tease me im aware that they dont mean it in a bad way, theyre just having fun but it feels horrible and i cant let them know cb theyd just call me over dramatic
This explains alot. Again something about myself I never realized was due to ADHD