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Originally Posted by DespondentDaisy
I have several elements, such as irritableness, anger, tearfulness, anxiety, stress, depression, and I list them on a scale of 1-5 for every day. But the problem is, it's not like I experience them all everyday, or even at a continual period of time. Like I'll maybe have two to three agitated states and feel stressed at times one day, or tear up a couple time the next and feel anxious, but it's never a continual problem throughout the day like it has been in the past. So this leads me to believe I'm fine. Because of course one;s not going to feel happy every instant of every day, that's not normal either.
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I don't think one should change feeling states that often during a single day; one should respond to external happenings rather than have internal ones all the time; the internal upheavals and surprises are what get resolved in therapy.
In addition to the 1-5 scale, I would add or replace with a number of times? I'd do a "2-3x agitated" and use the scale if you can say how bad the agitation was compared to other agitations? I mean sometimes we're just a "little" agitated and other times we're a lot? If they are short or "average out" in intensity, then I wouldn't use the scale but if one or more were longer than usual or more intense, I'd note that with the scale.