How I Overcame Mood Swings

I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.-Matt Dillon

Haha, Just as I was about starting this topic I almost fell a victim of a mood swing , back in the days I would have but now, no moooreee. This early morrring for that matter oo!  Ah! May God not bring people that will make us unhappy our way in the morning. Help me say Amin.

Ehen! My Ulovers as Korede Bello said its bellovers,as my name is Uju so its Ulovers nah? abi?. Yeah am quite excited today am going to be talking about me. This topic is totally about me and how I got happiness as a lifestyle rather than a happy and sad me, I chose one. *winks* u can do that too.

Mood swing is a terrible, terrible character if I must put it that way, it was a terrible character I had. To those who know me personally, you guys know the story. I could smile this minute and frown the next minute. And then it almost felt like it was a normal way of life till it started making worse things happen to me, I lost friends, I was always lost in thoughts, above all I became very aggressive. Mood swings come with anger.

But then I decided and told myself that this just had to stop.  It was not easy trust me, but then I will be sharing what I discovered were the causes and how I overcame. I actually took my time to sort it out and I discovered the very common causes of my Mood Swings. 

I will be listing a few causes:

Accumulated Anger: Not letting out your anger, swallowing it and then it builds off and show cases in its worse ways.

Associating with the wrong company of friends: Do not get me wrong, to me they were wrong in the sense that, what could make them smile could make me sad and thereby affecting my day and I dislike negativity.

Murmuring and complaints: Instead of using my sense of humor properly I could complain for Africa but thank God for God. *In my Bestest voice* lol.

How I Overcame:

- Prayer: There is no greater solution to a challenge than that which we drop at the table of God. This was my first step to complete victory. 

-For Accumulated Anger: I learnt to speak out and thank God for restoring my Sense of Humor, so I knew how to accept an expensive joke. 

Choosing the right group of friends: I discovered the best in my friends,met the positive ones, met the Spiritually grounded ones, met the Bestest, stayed glued to the Sisi, met the playful ones, happy and energetic ones. You guys are a blessing to me I must say. I cannot mention names but you all know yourselves *hugs*

-Activating my hobby: Rather than get out of a mood, I rather start doing what I love to do best, maybe listen to music, watch a comedy skit, if possible change of environment is necessary and so on.

I must say am a lot happier, cheerful, playful, name it and above all I feel like me *yikess*

Am sure many of us go through same mood swing challenges, you too can get off it. I am always happy now, people say its impossible but then I say it is possible. Life is too short to be anything but happy. You have to make conscious efforts and pray about it.  

This is my experience and I found a solution, I conquered. You too can.

I will sincerely appreciate your comments, if you have an experience to share about anything kindly send it to chukwuuju@ymail.com.