Are mood tracker useful?

[Sylvain-]

Does anyone use a mood tracker to follow your anxiety/depression levels? Does it help you?

Attached is my tracking levels for the last 10 days.

[Blueruth]

you can use that to communicate with your providers. It is difficult to remember the up days when you are down but it is never flat. You can also add note, auto track exercise or steps and look at them together. The more data points you have the more you learn about yourself.

[Sylvain- in reply to Blueruth]

Thanks for the reply, Blueruth.

Do you take actions to modify the curve when you see the trend it takes, or do you use it mostly for retroactive analysis?

For example, in my case, I see the curve continuously falling after a high point Wednesday, but I feel quite powerless while looking at it falling inexorably.

[Blueruth in reply to Sylvain-]

I’m focused on tracking food and weight right now though of course they are related. I take action but you could approach it like meditation too. There you observe and come back to your breathing. In tracking you are making an observation, noting it (literally) for later examination. So you can take either approach. There is going to be a point where your mood rises. Keep making notes and later come back to them. Ask what was going on that changed? Were you eating differently? Sleeping more? Can you figure out what helps and use that information for self care?

[Sylvain- in reply to Blueruth]

Sounds like an interesting approach. Thanks.

[Raggedy-Ann]

Interesting. I might try that.