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Daily Life - What Mood Are You In? #D0362

A: Are you OK? You seem a bit anxious.

B: Yeah I’m OK, I have been having a lot of mood swings lately. I think it has to do with the pills my doctor prescribed that are causing chaos on my hormones.

A: So you mean you feel ecstatic one minute and then blue the next?

B: Yeah, it’s weird. For example just this morning I was feeling detached and lonely, even though there was really no reason to feel that way.

A: Well, maybe your mood will swing positively and you will feel confident, brave and hopeful!

B: I hope you are right.

Key Vocabulary

anxious - worried or nervous of what may happen

mood swing - rapid or successive change of your mood

ecstatic - feeling very excited or happy

blue - feeling sad, depressed

detached - feeling of showing lack of emotional involvement

lonely - sad from being apart from other people

confident - assurance: from doubt

brave - not feeling any fear freedom

Supplementary Vocabulary

maniac depressive - suffering from a disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression

anxiety - an abnormal sense of fear, nervousness, and apprehension

self esteem - personal feelings or opinions of oneself

emotional - determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason

overwhelming - overpowering in effect or force