Coping with Mood Swings

Mood swings are often blamed on unbalanced hormones, especially in women, but is it a fact or simply an easy way for men and parents to dismiss emotional extremes in women and teens? Is it feasible that men are just as likely to have mood swings but are simply less likely to take note of their emotional state and instead focus on what they perceive as the outward problem? After all every teenage girl knows just when dad is in the ‘right’ mood to ask for a favour and when she should “lay low”.

Turns out moods are important for our body’s rhythm and our creative cycles. They can be caused by everything from our diet and sleep habits to our hormones and genes. In addition, new research shows that our mind and thought life, plays a very important part in determining our emotional state and our moods. So what is the answer? What are the tools and mechanisms we can use to make sure we can adequately control our mood swings rather than them controlling us?

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