A mood swing is an extreme or rapid change in mood. Such mood swings can play a positive part in promoting problem solving and in producing flexible forward planning.
However when these changes start to become controlling, mood swings can start to adversely affect the way someone functions.
Famous quotes containing the words mood and/or swing:
“Funny, but when you’re near me I’m in the mood for love.”
—Dorothy Fields (1904–1974)
“And then came the most devastating thought of all: I was one of them. I who used to swing upside down on a living horse, who always danced when mere walking would have done, so glad was I of life, so full of health. It was the most gruesome thought I had ever had in my life.”
—Josephine Demott Robinson (1865–1948)