Sudden changes in depression/suicidality?

[Keen]

I wanted to know if any of you who have struggled with depression ever have the experience of sudden changes in your feelings of depression or suicidal thoughts?

For example, being completely fine for weeks, and then waking up the next morning extremely depressed and suicidal. Or feeling depressed and suicidal for weeks only to wake up one day and its 100% gone and there is not even a speck of depression or suicidalness within you? Or even feeling extremely depressed all afternoon, only to have it disappear entirely that evening?

I know people with DID might experience this due to switching between parts/alters, but I am wondering if anyone without DID experiences anything like these things with their depression and suicidality?

 

[hithere]

story of my entire life

 

[Deleted member 47099]

Yes. I don't have DID and get this quick and intense shifting of emotion (depression/ suicidalness) a lot. The suddenness of it can be really shocking and confusing.

 

[Ronin]

Yes, both ways, and:

The back to lows I am used to.

It is back to the highs and everything being Fine now, that I need to watch out for.
The lows are familiar. An old friend. The highs are unpredictable. An old... not a friend.

If just a D.I.D. thing, find it waay easier to sort, to be honest. That is just back to situational self regulation and figuring out who else can manage the day and the similar. It is when not a DID thing I get stuck. In the years I actually coped, split to smaller teams / parts where one could balance the other and pull through that emotional nonsense, but my depression got waay worse since then, is still complicated by unresolved grief, and my ability to compartmentalize effectively went out of the window.

 

[Keen]

Interesting, I didn't know this was common. The two friends I have with depression said its just been constant for them for years, it doesn't shift quickly or at all. So I was wondering whether if for so people it did or whether it was always pretty static.

 

[Deleted member 47099]

Yeah, I think if you have depression as your main diagnosis, it can be pretty static and constant. I have a lot of friends like that too. It seems relentless with them, and they rarely seem to have a "good day" or "good week".

For me, with PTSD, depression is only a "part" of PTSD. So it comes and goes.

My pdoc says "feeling depressed" is a natural repsonse to trauma...?

Also, I'm not entirely sure if I may have a more "bipolar" version of depression or not, so I may cycle between depression and hypo-mania? And I may feel those "shifts" between those states? It's very hard for me to tell, because I have so many PTSD symptoms that are all over the place, that I wouldn't really know how to work out whether there's bipolar stuff going on??

 

[shimmerz]

Night terrors can cause sudden shifts like that for me.

 

[Keen]

with PTSD, depression is only a "part" of PTSD. So it comes and goes.

That makes a lot of sense to me, why it would be more dynamic

 

[xASHIpeachesx_]

Yes I thought I was the only one. I would be fine and then I hit so low I can't even get up to go eat and I sleep the entire day just trying to get away.