Daily Life - What Mood Are You In? (C0362)

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: freedom from doubt

brave

Not feeling any fear

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

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