I agree totally that a mood can just be a mood. I know best when I am cycling. It has served me very well that my family and I have a system. When I am cycling, I tell them and make sure they know where I am with my moods. That way they understand it isnt about them but me. If I havent shared that info with them, then they know it is a mood and it is about them darnit, lol. It is the only way they can take me serious as a person and see beyond my disorder.

Everybody has mood swing and it not because of the BP. I too hate it when others say that to me. How come it can't be that I'm have a Gemini moment or hell even a PMS moment.

haha pms.
i get so hormonal it's crazy.
i'm crazy.
everyone can tell. it's like "whoops, time to walk on eggshells, jenny's pms-ing)"

i might bite your head off.

It has taken everyone around me along time to accept sometimes just like them I am having a bad day. That is part of learning to cope with Beepers, allow yourself a bad day it seems to stop them becoming a bad week, month. When they start to becme more than a bad day then and only then can it be questioned...We have simple basic emotions the same as everyone else.

Oh I have mixed episodes a lot so I go through 35 moods in a day sometimes, so my stbx no longer even reacts to me, I could be dancing on the kitchen table with my head on fire, and he'll just sigh and get the fire extinguisher and say, Well, she's just Being Moody.

Moody is for Teenagers! LOL! I go to JUPITER.

I hear you. It can be hard to decipher a regular "bad day" and one that is brought on by BP. I think sometimes I use my Bp and drinking as a excuse sometimes not conciouslly but I think I do.

Java I had a thought(sheesh it hurt) nd if Im off the mark that is cool. Is there anyway that someone other than you, because coming from you hes likely to think"yeah right" that just because your beepers doesnt mean you dont have "normal?"mood swings. Perhps your Pdoc or Tdoc is able to explain to him that while yes you have beepers you are still a person and still experience"normal"(what is normal)mood swings. On his part I think it is genuine concern and he is trying to prepare for the next cycle. DH mine included only want to support us and I think sometimes it is as confusing for themas it is for us. My DH never seems to be anything but happy so he has worked really hard to accept that mood swings are mood swings, a bad mood bad day is just that and a cycle is a cycle.
Its confusing for us so imagine how hard it is for non Beepers to try to work it all out and find whether it is a mood, a day or part of the cycle.
If Im off the mark so be it but I hope this helps both of you in some small way...

A bad day, pms and bipolar all mixed together now THAT'S a bad day! lol

Johnette I'm reading this after taking my ambien to sleep so I'm going to reread it in the am and see if I still think the same thing. I think you are nail on about having someone explain it to him and possibly my son too. My son tends to have a different reaction than my dh does not bad per se he just tells me to lose the attitude which sometimes is infuriating. My meds are really kicking in I better go to bed soon. I am definitely giving this more thought in the morning. I know my dh would go to therapy with me or for me either one.