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Originally Posted by neutrino
Okay, thanks. Good to know. I for some reason have a tendency to think that if I'm not at a 2 or lower all the time it probably means I'm not depressed but instead just making things up (which of course isn't true, but my brain feeds me that lie anyway). Also worried that my psychologist won't think I'm depressed if I'm occasionally at a 5 (which just means I'm not thinking about how I feel in that moment), but that probably isn't true either.
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Yeah, that's right, neither of these things are true. If anything, I think this is exactly what your psychologist would want and expect to see with this exercise: that sometimes you feel better and sometimes you feel worse. That way, the two of you can start to find some patterns behind that, and that could give you some useful information to work with. So I think it's good thing that you're seeing and recording these fluctuations.