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Mood Swing Mania

I am going along in a happy cheerful dancing prancing skipping way For an hour or so, enjoying daffodils and tulips, loving the warm sun. When BAM! It hits me. Sadness. Depression that throws me down under a bridge with force. I hit my head on the concrete of its suddenness, and I see stars. Nothing is pretty now; it feels like I am wearing heavy army boots. I do not even try to get up. What would be the use? The day is ruined. Everyone hates me. I hate myself. I am despondent and unhappy, and irritated. Nothing is right. I yell at myself. Internally, calling myself all kinds of mean things. Take a nap! My internal voice demands. I take a couple of sleeping pills. Wake up two hours later, ready to find a rainbow. Dancing and prancing, I skip along, not ready for the next hit.

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Date: 10/11/2021 4:47:00 PM
My day was bleck…
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/11/2021 11:59:00 PM
I am sorry Kim.
Date: 10/11/2021 1:11:00 PM
Scary stuff is all I can say... esp. with the sleeping pills added in to the volatile mix. ~ gw
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/12/2021 12:00:00 AM
Sometimes this is the only way I sleep though. It's better than NOT sleeping.
Date: 10/11/2021 9:10:00 AM
I have no idea how that must be. I am one of these disgustingly boring even-keeled people who is the same almost all of the time. I'm congenial and pleasant, even happy-go-lucky. Just don't cross me! I can take a lot, but eventually I will blow and it's not a pretty thing!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/11/2021 10:15:00 AM
I sure do understand that too. I can go from passive to aggressive when riled.

Book: Shattered Sighs