Why does euphoria always cause...

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...A bad comedown afterwards?
I find that whenever I feel happiness about something, I become sad in a matter of hours afterwards. Happiness never seems to last for me anymore. I try to tell myself positive things, put my mind in a good state and have a positive outlook but theres always this "demon" causing me misery.

I feel that my life is cursed, that I am not allowed to feel happiness without a following punishment. I don't think I am manic depressive because its not that I have one super-energic manic day followed by one bad day. It's several mood-swings a day...
It wasn't like this before, until I reached a point in my life where I gave up everything. I was 17 at the time but feel that I should have recovered from this depression now as its no longer constant. Depression is described as "mind emptiness" and thats nowhere near what I am experiencing. My euphoric-state is never peacefull but often energic and happy in a weird way...
Its always followed by a combination of feelings such as dread, total doom, suicidal toughts, intense sorrow and just sadness.
Psychiatry isn't working at all, its effects are short term. I walk out the conversation feeling at peace, but minutes or hours later I "come down" to my old depressive self again.
I don't know what to do with this, I want to be emotionally stable!

Can anyone relate to this and possibly, give any advices that work for them?
I want this to end and I am bothered by thoughts of ending it all...
I feel so abandoned. Like God has given me up and that I am some dreaded individual doomed to live in sorrow forever...

Do you think its really possible to achieve a permanent state of happiness? Ofcourse, our culture makes us believe that this is possible. And it also makes us believe that we are failures if we aren't happy. So then we feel miserable and self-hating becuase we aren't happy. What an impossible expectation! Happiness is such a delicate state. Something could destroy it in a second.
What if you gave up searching for happiness? I don't mean to wallow in despair. I just mean to give up the expectation for happiness all the time.

The emotional state of happiness? No.

Eudaimonea? Yes.

you could have cylothymia

I find that writing everything down sometimes helps. Just sit down with your favorite text editor and record everything in your mind. Stream of conscious type writing. When I am depressed this helps me get to the bottom of why I am depressed. If anything, it usually makes me feel better.

Of course not. But in my case we're talking about hour to hour mood swings. Happy one hour, Sad the next.

Kind of like... when happy hour ends

I dont like psychiatric labels (many of them are ill-concieved) but there is a subset of officially recognised bipolar called rapid-cycling and (IIRC) ultra-rapid cycling which can cause daily mood swings. Could be an alternative name for cyclothymia.

Before i knew about ASDs i suspected i had rapid-cycling bipolar. Actually, i still feel that way sometimes, but ive always looked at it the complete opposite way - if im more depressed than usual for no apparent reason i dont care much, because i know euphoria usually follows in an hour.