Svetlana Ch. (SEE) - Mood

I often have mood swings, and a lot depends on my interactions with people. You come in, look at someone, and their state is awful — and your own drops to zero as well. If the topic is sad, a feeling like “life hasn’t worked out” washes over you; everything drifts into the negative, and it becomes very hard to maintain a good state.

I go out and meet someone “with a spark in their eyes” — and my mood lifts, my body lifts too.

If there’s melancholy and there’s no one nearby to lift your spirits — it’s bad. You mustn’t allow your state to spiral downward. You have to force yourself to do yoga, read something, go to a concert. If you manage to shake yourself out of that state, you switch gears, the mechanism starts up, and you begin to function. But if you do nothing — it’s awful.

When people come in with a bad mood, I feel bad too. If someone is in a bad mood and mine worsens as well, it leaves a nasty feeling inside — like, damn it, everything was going so well!

During the day, my mood can change.