Sudden Severe Depression

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Does anyone go from "basically fine" to "I want to die" really quickly?

What helps?

What happened that caused this mood?

I guess I would think of my children, use them as a springboard to bring you back from being down.

Are you feeling better?

Something tells me you feel overwhelmed.

I found myself easily roller coasted by emotion, In other words, yes that kind of irrational jump does happen to me also.

I do not know your situation, if you want to let us or me know fine but ill just say my experience and I hope it provides some perspective to take into account.

It is for me mostly mental irrationality. My mind never stops, and when your mind is constantly over-analyzing and thinking it can sometimes come to its own conclusions.

For me, Whatever the "situation" I find myself in, I learned that I must (I say I because it may not work for everyone but its what helps me).

1st: Breath- Calm yourself, and breathing is great for that but it requires practice, you WILL NOT achieve the calmness you expect from one 10 minute breathing exercise. Practice this, breath-focus on your breaths and nothing else. (read about meditation also, breath first though).

2nd: Analyze- This step can be the hardest. You really have to mentally take a step back and look at the situation from a different view (or more if you can). This is not easy, but take as much time as you need to really try to go through what happened again and again in your mind, do it slowly. Try to understand and see what (if applicable) others were feeling and thinking during the event. (And if the event is sole driven, then you are trying to understand the perspective you were seeing at the time, comparing it to other average readings of emotions and doing your best to realize what the median should actually be). - Which is the hardest of all situations.

3rd: Decide- Ignorance is bliss, but easier said then done for me (and I assume other aspies). After your analyzing, it must bring you to a conclusion on what is the typical emotional feeling that is rational from what you have went through (an understanding NT friend is very helpful for this part). Even once you realize the most proper emotional reaction (even if its with some help) it may be very hard to hold onto this perspective and you may find your mind "wandering" back to the trails of delusion.

I call it BAD. Made it up in my head one day to a coworker who suffers from probably not ASD but something and it seemed to help.

Remember facts, remember other people make mistakes, remember that you are alive, breathing, and this "state" of emotional feeling is temporary. No matter how bad.

In the end I feel obliged to say all of this works for ME, not everyone. So try it, change it, do as you will but trust me when I say you can control yourself, but its not easy. (for me at least).

Peace, Commadore

Thank you both.

I'm fine now. I guess it was a whole lot of little things adding up. I honestly don't even remember what it all was.

I do know that if I let myself think awhile about my health, I can get *really* down, but not for long.

Remembering that it's temporary is helpful.

I have BPD and my moods can cycle very quickly. I know that how I feel now may have nothing to do with how I will feel tomorrow or even just an hour from now. Recognizing that my moods can cycle for no apparent reason helps me to detach from them so they don't have as much of an impact on me.

If I am in a particularly dysphoric state (feels like my soul in my chest is being sucked down a drain pipe) and I am a danger to myself, I may just take some meds and have a nap or go to sleep. Sleep usually resets my mood and I forget why I was depressed when I wake up.

Sometimes I will just listen to sad music or watch a sad video to make me cry, after crying for a bit, I feel better and less stressed.