One study found that supplementing with omega-3 fatty acids helps reduce symptoms of premenstrual syndrome PMS like nervousness, anxiety, and depression. Exercise, sleep, and meditation can help. You can also talk to your doctor about hormone therapy. Being cranky and irritable can also indicate a mood disorder such as bipolar disorder or depression. Low levels of neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine can have a negative impact on your mood. In addition to feeling cranky, you may lose interest in your favorite activities, isolate yourself, or deal with poor concentration.
Have an open and honest discussion with your healthcare team. Your doctor may recommend medication like antidepressants or anti-anxiety drugs. You may also benefit from talk therapy. Everyone knows what it feels like to be cranky once in a while.
You can go from happy-go-lucky to edgy and agitated without much explanation. Crankiness can cloud your day like an irritable and annoying ache. It also affects the people around you. The good news is that you are now armed with the knowledge of why you might be feeling cranky and what you can do to feel better. To learn more about de-stressing, visit our page on stress management. Keep reading: Lavender oil for stress ». Sleep deprivation not only effects how you feel the next day, it can also have an effect on your entire body.
From weight gain to an early death, a…. Depression and fatigue are different, and yet sometimes they can feel strikingly similar. A new study finds that lowered blood glucose levels exacerbate marital strife. Some people believe that they're a newly discovered…. What are emotional needs, exactly? We break it down and give you 10 basic ones to consider. Talking to parents is important, too. Parents can share their own experiences dealing with bad moods. Plus, they'll appreciate it if you try to explain how you feel instead of just slamming a door.
Teachers and counselors are often good resources, and a doctor can help sort through questions about development. Keeping feelings inside can make them seem much worse. Regular exercise produces more beta-endorphin, a hormone that controls stress and improves mood.
Go for a run, play some tennis, ride your bike, or punch a punching bag. Get enough sleep. Though it can be hard to find enough time, getting adequate rest is very important.
Being tired can lead to more sadness and irritability. Get involved in some sort of project, like starting a journal or diary, building something out of wood, or starting an art or music piece.
Writing can help you organize and express your thoughts and feelings and will make things more manageable. Don't worry about grammar, spelling, or punctuation; the important thing is just to get your thoughts on paper. Do the same thing with paint, sculpture, music, or other art forms. Put your feelings into your artwork. There's nothing wrong with crying; in fact, it often makes a person feel better.
However, if you find that you are sad, irritable, bored, or hopeless much of the time, or if you just can't seem to shake the blues, you might be depressed and need help from a counselor or doctor.
I was just thinking that I should probably get to the lab to finally do the blood workup my doctored ordered…um…. Seeing a couple friends find out they had health issues that were majorly impacting their lives, yet were solvable has motivated me to be more on top of taking care of myself. Thanks for sharing this! I have struggled with all but the thyroid issues, and I think you are so right—all of these issues combined with a lack of sleep can create huge struggles with a good attitude on a daily basis!
I love this post. I have found a lot of help on the stop the thyroid madness blog. Stuff like finding a good doctor and what labs are helpful. I have found parenting to be a lot more fun now! I stumbled across this on pinterest and just wanted to say this is a great article! Women need to read stuff like this. I was diagnosed with a thyroid condition 2 months ago, but it was totally by accident — a routine check-up.
I wish I had gone to a doctor earlier since it has taken nearly 2 months to get back to any semblance of normality. Thanks for writing this! I hope it motivates more moms to find out if they could feel a lot better by addressing some underlying health issues!
If PMS is an issue, keep close track of your cycle. Knowing it is coming helps me mentally prepare. I also set my calendar to remind me not to agree to do anything extra a week before my period. There are unavoidable things, but I also tend to say yes to everything in that week. Then I am so exhausted and overwhelmed the week surrounding the start of my cycle I am nasty to my loved ones.
It also helps me physically prepare. I remember to eat more iron rich foods, sleep and avoid caffeine. I was starting to question my sanity sometimes, but once I got back onto my naturopath and identified a few things and got my health more in balance, I had so much more emotional control! No wonder I was going crazy.
What a useful post! Thanks for posting. I wanted to shout out to tell you that I appreciate your postings. I have been on antidepressants for several years now. Along the way, I have had to get them increased in dosage and changed up for stronger drugs. I have spend this entire year marching myself down off of them in a safe way. Now I am finding myself back in the same place as when I first went on them. Depressed, quick tempered, fatigued, unfocused, forgetful… Doc tested for thyroid and said it was fine.
Not sure what the next step is. I am seeing a natural med pharmacist who mixes me up some tablets to help but I am still feeling that something is amiss. It may be time to see another doctor. There can be so many things. Also for me dairy and eggs. Then B12 to help detox and Vit D. Still doing more tests but even those have helped greatly so that instead of thinking that I was actually going mad, I can now think and reason.
I am loving your blog the more I read it. I have been thinking that somehow my health and mood swings are related and planning on going for a checkup for ages.
After reading this, I may finally do it. Its heartening to know I am not the only one going thru these mom issues. Hope you check out my blog too. Great list! Would love to see adrenal issues added to the list. They can often be an underlying cause to almost all of these issues but rarely noticed by medical doctors.
Morgan — great point about Adrenal issues causing grumpiness and fatigue. My doctor had blood work done on me and found my vitamin D levels were extremely low. She said that this can also cause irritability and short temper. After taking a supplement to get it back up, I was a much happier mom. The last couple of weeks I slacked on taking it consistently and have noticed that I am irritable once again. Something you might ask your doctor about too!
I found out this fall after a sleep study that I have severe sleep apnea. Less grumpy and more clear minded. Add that to the list…. Thanks for taking the time to write and research this topic, I love reading your blogs…being a mum is very rewarding yet hard at times the number 1 rule is to take care of yourself so you can take care of your family, which I had forgotten. I would defiantly recommend to any mother out there if you have any of the above symptoms take sometime for yourself and go and get checked out, I am speaking from personal experience, I was constantly tired and feeling run down, grumpy, irritable and always getting sick, cut a long story short…..
I assumed that it may have been stress, I am a mum with two teens work fulltime as a pre-school teacher and then did a night time cleaning job, so saying all that I assumed I needed to slow down. I then started getting irregular periods, which to me seemed more than stress so I eventually went to the doctors, I have been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism Graves disease which I may have had for sometime as I have also developed multinodular goitres.
I am waiting to find out some more test results before I can start a treatment plan and start to feel like myself again. Stick with it! BUT, I test low on everything blood pressure, heart rate, metabolism, thyroid. Also, I started a treatment for Candida yeast and fungus that has made a difference as well.
Good luck and stick with finding answers. I never knew that I could feel so great! This is awesome! I suffered my whole life from being grumpy!
I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia when I was almost 18 I was having seizures — but I never took the diet seriously. They recommended a low-sugar, no-white flour diet…and that was 25 years ago!
When your hypothalamus gets crazy, everything gets crazy hunger, thirst, mood, parenting, sleep, awake, anger…everything! Who knew that my completely anti-social behavior my whole life!
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