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Food, exercise, sleep.

Eat properly, three times a day. It's amazing what that does to your mental health.

Exercise regularly, even if it's just walking for 30 minutes.

Sleep properly (~8hrs), and during the nights.


I was diagnosed borderline (F60.3 if you wanna look it up in DSM-IV) a couple of years ago. And those three simple things, together with SSRI (Zoloft), really helped me out.

Nothing in your behavior really points to you having a "proper" mental illness (depression / borderline etc). It -is- normal to have ups and downs. Especially when you're 19. You are on the threshold of being a grown up and a youngster. It's not an easy period of your life.

But, as an earlier poster wrote. If your social and/ or personal life suffers from your mood swings, go see a professional. Try to get a proper psychiatrist and not just a counsellor (although I think that in the UK a counsellor can remit you to a psychiatrist?).

If it works like it does here in Sweden, they'll most likely give you some sort of SSRI to see if that helps. Try it out, it actually might help. If it doesn't, it warrants further treatment.