I’ve been recording my mood, motivation, energy, cognition, and paranoia lately. On a scale of 1-10 I’ve been giving myself a grade on how well I was doing. I remember doing this with mood when I was first diagnosed with bi-polar and I think it made my mood worse. Before I started this I didn’t know how my mood could get any better, now I realize I’m tired with an average mood. I thought it was one of my strengths and now it’s just average.
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I never no the state of my mood. My gp and pdoc always asks me about my mood. I normally say well at least I’m not suicidal.
I think they ask because I’m on a mood stabilizer. I was put on it because of suicidal ideation some time ago. Now I’m okay.
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My father and I have an agreement that I sometimes rate my symptoms on a 1-10 scale, and if it reaches past a certain number, I send him a text with that number and he’ll call me so we can talk.
I think I even made a thread about it.
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Yeah I remember that thread @Berru. What I’m getting at is that when you are more conscious of your mood the worse it is.
I think there’s some truth to that.
I mean, if you constantly think “Am I happy?”, “How happy am I?” and “Could I be happier?” you’re not allowing yourself to just enjoy the emotions while they’re there.
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I really don’t do it with happiness though. I’m not exactly sure what I’m measuring.
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