Mood fluctuations

[sqishy]

My emotions and moods are never stable and, me being a guy who tends to think too much about everything in life, can find myself getting into sadness, frustration, confusion and annoyance with myself after only 10 minutes of taking a pessimistic train of thought. This can last for hours and then I get about an hour of no mood or emotion at all, like totally neutral. I can get this daily, with a few minutes of elation here and there, before the mood plummets again. Is this normal? All I have to do is think certain thoughts and it creates this chain of emotional reactions and moods, taking me from a high one minute into a low the other. It's not helping that, being gay, some guy I had a deep crush with for 4 years has left for university, meaning I can never see him again. If I think about him, the feelings I have for him make me depressed. Unrequited love, not a nice thing....The swings are nor extreme, they just keep happening.
I can't control this. It's not impacting my life in any major way, but it's not helping me either.
I am in a low mood atm. AAAAAAAAAAAARGH >.<

[Harry Smith]

Unrequited love sucks man, I know that for a fact. But don't stress about the mood swings at all, everyone has them. We all have good and bad days but yeah sometimes the bad days are more common.

The best thing to do is to try and distract yourself- if your doing nothing then you'll end up over thinking stuff and that never really helps. If I'm feeling a bit shitty I just play GTA and kill a couple of virtual civilians with a baseball bat.

If that doesn't work just try and talk to someone about it, I know sometimes it can be a sensitive issue so maybe try and disguise it if you don't want to talk directly about it. But I find that if you talk about a problem with someone they can offer a different view.

Don't worry about the mood swings mate, in time they'll pass. Life always finds a way to unfuck itself