Are mood swings common with PTSD and C-PTSD and other trauma-related disorders? Especially in the later stages?
Lately I've been having a lot of mood swings and my anger escalates really quickly and suddenly. I don't think this is healthy or normal. Earlier tonight I was ranting about something that happened at work, and all of a sudden Dave (my fiance) took a few steps back from me and held up his hands and was like "Whoa..."
He said my pupils were really dilated and I was breathing really heavily.
One minute I'll be totally fine, like I'll be sitting there watching YouTube videos, and then a few minutes later I'll remember something that happened to me years ago and randomly get mad about it and start ranting and yelling about it, or sometimes I just get really sad and cry.
Sometimes when I have flashbacks, I feel this really intense anger or depression afterwards and then it's all just a downward spiral from there.
I don't understand what's happening to me...
Lately I've been having a lot of mood swings and my anger escalates really quickly and suddenly. I don't think this is healthy or normal. Earlier tonight I was ranting about something that happened at work, and all of a sudden Dave (my fiance) took a few steps back from me and held up his hands and was like "Whoa..."
He said my pupils were really dilated and I was breathing really heavily.One minute I'll be totally fine, like I'll be sitting there watching YouTube videos, and then a few minutes later I'll remember something that happened to me years ago and randomly get mad about it and start ranting and yelling about it, or sometimes I just get really sad and cry.
Sometimes when I have flashbacks, I feel this really intense anger or depression afterwards and then it's all just a downward spiral from there.
I don't understand what's happening to me...
