Anyone over 50 with moods all over the place?

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Dont know if its my age or what but i just feel like my moods can be up and down with no warning. Im not bipolar and dont take hrt, menopause was ok.
But i can be up one day and down the next. Worry all the time about my health as well but thats nothing new. Feel scared of the future.

Dont know whats happened to me.

ssd I’m exactly the same as you. Has to be age/menopause related. Great one day awful the next

I'm finding this thread quite reassuring. Obviously many older women feel the same. I have been quite scared by how quickly and dramatically my moods change, often for no reason I can work out. Covid clearly has not helped the whole situation. So much uncertainty, bad news, doom and gloom. The world seems to have turned upside down. Not just that but the whole value system of society is so alien to me now. Nothing makes sense anymore, and I wish I could turn the clock back .

I'm 50 and on HRT and feel similar. Was happily going about things this afternoon with DH and DD pottering around doing their thing. All seemed well. This evening, for no good reason everything anyone is doing is irritating me beyond belief. I feel like shouting "fuck off you fucking fuckers" at the top of my voice. It feels completely irrational and the total opposite to what I was feeling this afternoon. I try not to act on these monumental feelings because I know they will pass but still... hard to live with.

A song will come on the radio which remind me of my youth. Early rave type dance numbers and I'll start weeping. If I watch clips from the 90s e.g. Glastonbury from that era or big Knebworth concerts e.g. Oasis I'll start weeping. I feel like an absolute fucking nutter. But most of the time I'm fine?

I wonder if you've been around for more than half a centurty you just start to carry a lot more baggage than you can manage sometimes? You've seen and experienced a lot.

I appreciate my post has no answers.... Just saying I feel pretty much the same

My app won't allow me to just 'watch' so I'll post; but yes, I am emotional mess.

I'd be embarrassed to tell you who I've got irrationally emotionally over involved with, a complete stranger online.

How this came about I cannot fathom.

This is not who I am.

I wonder if you've been around for more than half a centurty you just start to carry a lot more baggage than you can manage sometimes? You've seen and experienced a lot.

This sums it up exactly. Plus i have awful health anxiety. I think its getting worse, have tried cbt, counselling etc, still the same. I look at old folk and think how have you managed to live so long with all the worries in the world?

You have my sympathy OP. I'm 49, not on HRT and am not able to have it. My moods are terrible. Last week at work I had a proper full on meltdown - two days of feeling fragile and crying, culminating in me walking out and seriously considering whether I could continue working.

It's shit. I don't want anti-depressants, which is all I've been offered. I don't have any answers, but diet, exercise and trying to avoid stress all seem to help a bit.