The mood tracker (as opposed to the Activity Tracker) is an easy tool to use. I try to fill in the information in the evening and it helps me to get an overview of my day. I can let go of all the minutae (that's for the Activity Tracker) and just summarize my day. It feels good to have it sort of organized and boxed up for the day. It also helps me pay attention to how I'm doing with the medications... sometimes I just lose track and forget to take them or take the wrong amounts... having to enter the information keeps me on track and shows me the correlation between meds and mood.
The mood tracker is helping me to understand my moods and myself better. Mornings seem to be a problem for me so I am going to start working on changeing that. First thing I need to do is get to bed earlier so that I can get enough sleep. Second thing I need to do is to start doing something positive first thing in the morning..Like exercise and maybe a little reading, working on a hobby would be good too. Just anything to change my negative thoughts into positive ones. Something that makes me feel good about me. I get up around 4:15 a.m. most mornings so today I came here to post, which is positive. While I am waiting for the sun to come up so that I can go out for a walk, I think I will make a lite breakfast instead of just sitting here and drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. Than I will shower get dressed and go for a early morning walk..
These are my positive goals for today..Wish me luck..
The Mood Tracker is a very important tool that can help you note changes in your mood - and it can help you and your therapist begin to see exactly how you're feeling. It's important to use the Mood Tracker daily because it's very hard, if not impossible, to track your mood the day after because we often forget the minor details - especially if you're depressed.
Are there any bright spots in your day at all? Do you feel depressed 100% of the time? If you're depressed 99% of the day then make sure you use your Mood Tracker to note what you were doing for the 1% of the day when you momentarily felt not as depressed. This is hard work, but if you use the Mood Tracker you and your therapist can begin to work on slowly making changes in your life that will decrease your depression and increase the amount of time that you feel better.
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