I have been mood charting for the past 13 years off and on. It works very well and you can also show your pdoc your chart so they can see exactly where you are at without much guess work. Plus you can start to see patterns in mood changes.

One way you could make one is to get a notebook and use the pages horizontally and on the left side of the paper write down your symptoms or whatever you want to chart (Ex. Overall Mood/ Paranoia/ Irritability etc..) and after each symptoms, draw a line under the word to the end of the page. Afterwards, Draw a line vertically after the symptom names to make a box around them. Then after that, draw 30 to 31 lines vertically (depending on what month you are in) to make a space for every day of the month. (It's better to use regular notebook or graph paper). And make you sure have enough space to write 0 to 10 or 1- 10). So basically the whole page is going to have a list of things you are tracking and a space to rate your feelings/symptoms every day. Its easiest to do 1-10 (1= lowest or not at all and 10= the absolute highest). It may sound confusing but its harder to describe in writing.

Another thing you can do is search for "Printable Mood Charts" on google. Then just print out the one you like the best and follow the instructions.

The Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) also has an app on it for mood/symptom charting.

You can also create one on excel.

I hope this helps you out a little bit.