I am a 14 year old girl. I sometimes feel all happy and jumpy/excited but then out of nowhere I feel depressed. But then, I feel alot of rage and so angry. I start throwing things and yelling. This happens mostly alot and when I feel angry I start hitting things and hurting myself and I start having rapid thoughts going through my head. But then after that, I feel all happy and normal like if that never happened and I start thinking why I did that. I reall don't know what been going on, this been going on for about 4months or more. I haven't told my parents or no one. If I do have a disorder or what ever, what's it called and how could I tell my doctor and parents? Oh and my half sister suffers from bipolar ( I don't know if that really good info but I just wanted to let you know). Thanks.
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If your sister has a bipolar, then you should recognize the signs, or could know how it looks. Maybe its depression. Mostly its puberty combined with some case of a disorder i think. I remember myself at 14. I had these awful mood swings and was yelling like a crazy chick for no big reason. And then i cried for hours till i had no tears left and felt exhausted. So mostly i think the hormones are the culprit. Maybe you had a dissapoinment with someone lately and have supressed in your subconsciousness, and now you feel like there is no obvious reason for that. Try to write down your feelings between those "attacks" and after, and write the date, time and thougts of why that may happen or if something strange has happened before that. And if those attacks dont go away, go to a specialist and show him your writings and talk with him. Its very important that you dont feel ashamed when talking about this. Always take care of yourself, dont ever forget that.
I thought Bipolar disorder right away. I know someone with Bipolar that has rapid mood changes although Bipolar disorder mood changes are typically thought of as not very sudden like a month in between. Both of my mom's sisters have bipolar disorder and they don't seem to change mood so rapidly but I bet a lot of teenagers with it do. Bipolar disorder can be very depressing to have. It's difficult to diagnose properly but I think of the idea of getting a nice therapist to do that is a good idea. It is fairly likely but I don't know what they can do about it and I don't want them to use too much drugs to try to fix it.