It's usually...

in the dead of night that I feel the most melancholy.

And not to sound like an emo goth douche, that is usually the time when darker thoughts strike me.

It is like Tourette's, but for bad thoughts. Instead of breaking out into strings of profanity, I am overwhelmed by random images/thoughts of things I really really do not want to think about.

And I feel, for a brief moment, mildly unstable. Then I shake it off, and try to feel better.

It's easier in the day, when there are things to draw your attention away.

But in the dead of night? There's no such distraction.

In the dead of night, my darker moods are my only company as I seethe.

Jere