I have been having some really bad days recently and some really great days when i have never been better. I know its normal for people to feel good and not so good the next day to do with circadian rhythms. But i mean i volunteer in a charity shop and i was asked to come in. I made it but i really shouldnt have gone. The whole day was terrible and it was nothing related to what happened there. I just felt rotten inside. All i wanted to do was go home and even there was bad, again not because anything upset me. The next day was the same and the next. Then i will have some quite amazing days when i want to be and enjoy being around people. I was wondering whether i am making too much of this.i do have gilberts syndrome too. Where a normal person would have 17 (units) of bilirubin from red blood cells, someone with gilberts has much higher like 70 units. It causes jaundice and yellowing of the eyes and as i have read tiredness. But my doctor doesnt think it does cause tiredness. Also i have noticed strangely that my medication paroxetine has helped the eye colouring problem quite a bit, most days they are pure white. Before i was on it my eyes were always yellow and i was always tired but due to mental health problems. These bad days have coincided with this discolouration but i havent felt tired.
good days/bad days cycle
- Thread starter waine
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Satine
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Hi waine,
From what you've written here it sounds to me as if you're getting a mixed bag of days - some good, some bad, but there's quite a lot of swinging between positive and negative moods so that they feel very distinct from each other. This is interfering with your ability to function at the charity shop because the negative feelings you have on your bad days make the job harder.
However, you also have good days and on those you experience completely the opposite - fantastic days where you feel sociable, where you have the energy and the desire to mix, and having a basically sociable job, you do so.
I'm also reading that you're aware of the fact that the negativity is all inside your head rather than due to external forces - the feeling you get of wanting to retreat back to your own four walls, for example. Am I right in reading this into your post?
In addition to your good/bad days, you also have a blood disorder that occasionally results in externally-visible symptoms (the jaundice you mentioned). But it is your feeling that you don't suffer from the tiredness that some Gilberts' sufferers experience.
From what you've written here it sounds to me as if you're getting a mixed bag of days - some good, some bad, but there's quite a lot of swinging between positive and negative moods so that they feel very distinct from each other. This is interfering with your ability to function at the charity shop because the negative feelings you have on your bad days make the job harder.
However, you also have good days and on those you experience completely the opposite - fantastic days where you feel sociable, where you have the energy and the desire to mix, and having a basically sociable job, you do so.
I'm also reading that you're aware of the fact that the negativity is all inside your head rather than due to external forces - the feeling you get of wanting to retreat back to your own four walls, for example. Am I right in reading this into your post?
In addition to your good/bad days, you also have a blood disorder that occasionally results in externally-visible symptoms (the jaundice you mentioned). But it is your feeling that you don't suffer from the tiredness that some Gilberts' sufferers experience.
