Emotional problems

[Ela1]

Hallo

Does anyone has gotcemotional problems? I'm getting very irritated at people and things and read that it is also a symptom. Little people tram here wrote about that.

Anyone has got similar problems? How do you cope with this?

[fbirder]

Yup.

Irritation, mood swings and depression. If I inject every week then they come back. I need twice a week to stamp on them

But it’s still there in the background. Before I start snapping at people I have to make myself realise that it’s not them, it’s my damaged brain. Unless it is them, of course, in which case they get both barrels.

[Gambit62 Administrator]

getting irritable is one of my warnings that I need totop up my B12 levels

[deniseinmilden]

Yes - I can't cope if things aren't straight forward and I used to get desperately upset at almost nothing - good or bad!!

More B12, and the supporting supplements that make it work, particularly folate and potassium all help.

[pitney]

Yes I find I get easily worked up these days, and I have to try to think before I speak otherwise things come out that I would not say on another day.

[spacey1]

I don't think I'm irritable (you'd have to check with my nearest and dearest!), but I do get really anxious when my B12 is low. I feel overwhelmingly worried about nothing at all - sure sign that I need a jab!

[Cherylclaire Forum Support]

Ela1 please do not feel worried about this.

Anxiety, mood-swings, anger, tears, irritability, impatience- all of these are familiar to most of us. It does get better. I have inappropriately shouted, argued or cried in front of most of the people who work in customer-facing jobs around this area: supermaket, chemist, GP surgery (GPs and nurses), library.... you name it. Some of them get that I was ill, some don't. Most have forgiven or forgotten, and only a couple remain miffed. It was even more scarey for me than them.

Now that I am self-injecting and can control how well I am, this does not happen. Family and friends care about how I am and support me. I am also able to say to people now that I have cognitive problems, and sometimes need things to be more straightforward and simple. Everyone at work knows: they care or don't care, just as before I got ill. People that count will be in your corner; even when it is difficult to like you, they will love you. Even when you don't particularly like them ! (..Or yourself!)

Whenever I'm finding people hard to understand, I go for a very long walk alone and live in the moment. Mostly, that's all I need to do to get over it now.

It won't always be this hard.