Feeling Moody

[V M]

Sometimes I feel really moody    Usually I have an idea what's bringing it on and I am able to catch myself before I get snappy with someone...
Sometimes not, so then I blame the HRT    But most often my moodiness equates to lack of sleep and worrying too much... Sometimes people's incisive arguing will will just get to me as well 

What makes you feel moody? How do you deal with it?

[LordKAT]

Biking, long walks or RS

[Constance]

Lots of things make me moody. But lately, being alone seems to be one of them even though I used to crave solitude. These days, solitude starts a memory fugue which leads to me fuming about what's gone wrong or what is going wrong in my life.

I deal with my moodiness with...

Biking, long walks or

I'll take 2 of LordKAT's options and add listening to music.

[V M]

Lots of things make me moody. But lately, being alone seems to be one of them even though I used to crave solitude. These days, solitude starts a memory fugue which leads to me fuming about what's gone wrong or what is going wrong in my life.

Oh yes, I can relate to this as well... I do the bike riding thing and use to do the music thing quite a bit... Maybe I should drag the 'ol guitars out and beat them up a bit more often   

[Constance]

I know what you mean about the guitars. In the last 3 weeks, I've finished writing 4 songs that I've been working on for years.

[JungianZoe]

But lately, being alone seems to be one of them even though I used to crave solitude. These days, solitude starts a memory fugue which leads to me fuming about what's gone wrong or what is going wrong in my life.

That's me in a nutshell.  In fact, that's the lump sum of what makes me moody these days.

I've been alone for 11 of the last 16 years of my life, wanting to be in relationships but always lonely.  Then again, I was such a hermit for 10 years that I didn't notice the emptiness I felt without someone special in my life.  But since I started HRT, I've become an absolute social butterfly, needing human contact almost 24/7, and thinking of how lonely I am makes my moods bottom out.  At this point, I've been single for 3.5 years and I'm dead sick of it, but I never see guys looking at me and they certainly don't approach me or talk to me.

Then I start to wonder if I just look like a freak and I'm not passing, because I see so many stories around the forums of girls who get guys asking them out.  I wonder what's wrong with me.  I'm out in the world all the time, but nothing happens.  And all of my friends are now couples, I'm 34 in September, and wondering if I'll be alone forever.

So that's my moodiness and what causes it every single time.  Without fail.

As for making it go away?  I can't seem to get this one to go away.  It pervades every thought all the time, even when I try to distract myself.

[Constance]

I'm going to be getting my first real taste of true loneliness soon, as my wife of 23 years will be leaving me. Part of me just can't believe it's happening, and part of me has seen this coming for a while.

I'll be 42 in September. I also hope I won't be lonely for the rest of my life. I can take some solace in the fact that I got to have nearly 24 years of romance. But, I haven't been single since high school, and it's about to start again. And I have no idea how to date. I guess I'll have to learn and give it a try.