[r010159]

I am looking for sites to help me log my mood on a daily basis. I have tried moodtracker but it seems only to remember the current day when I want it to display my chart.

[Jimpolar]

I'm using a sit and app called optimism. Works pretty well.

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Moodtracker has a search thingy at the top of the daily chart for looking at past month or quarter or year.

Since this is a thread on mood tracking, I have some questions:
* How does mood tracking help you?
* What is a good, easy-to-use, and helpful mood tracking tool? I have trouble sticking to consistent tracking. I tried Optimism, but I stopped using it after a few days. It's pretty rigorous, but I got bored.
* How do you stick to consistent mood tracking?

I'm all confused about mood tracking. I use the things regularly, but so what? Are mood trackers for people who tend to forget how they've been feeling? Because I can't forget even if I try...I'm very aware of the mood issues I'm experiencing...I dunno, the mood journaling just seems pointless to me, unless maybe someone does it for a year or more, then looks back to see what med or treatment was working months and months ago. I guess mood tracking can be helpful in that way.

[wildflowerchild25]

I use a mood tracker because I have a bad sense of time. I don't first how I was feeling but I forget exactly how long I was feeling it. Depression seems interminable so it helps to remember it was only or two or three weeks. I also get into a fog during depression and forget what's happening. Taking notes will jog my memory later. I can see how many episodes I have and eventually I might be able to see triggers

[HALLIEBETH87]

moodscope

[TheatreKid]

I don't track all the time. I usually try to start tracking when I'm having lots of episodes or if I'm in an extreme episode, not because I need to write it down to remember it, but because handing a sheet of paper to my pdoc is easier than explaining everything. I don't use an app, I designed my own with number ratings for mood (-3 to+3 with 0 being baseline), anxiety and irratibility (1-10), and I also write down hours of sleep and meds taken, with a comments section at the bottom of each day so I can write down things that happen that may affect my mood.

It was pretty simple to set up, just a chart in Microsoft Word. I tried a line graph once, which looked cool, but numbers just work better for me.

Moodtracker works to show me if I have a pattern going on long enough to be concerned, whether up or down, plus it tracks my anxiety levels in regards to my mood levels. That can show me moving towards mixed because high anxiety almost always travels alongside. Also, since I am in perimenopause it helps track my periods. That's how I was able to tell that my last very depressed episode also coincided with three months of no period. I can see how my hormones interact with my neurotransmitters.
A plus is the journaling part, I use it as a diary of sorts so I can also see what life events were going on during any given timeframe.
I've been using moodtracker.com since 2009.

[Phoenix_1]

Have you tried T2 Mood Tracker? It's an app for your smartphone developed by the US government. You can rate your moods every day and it keeps a chart of them with history. I started tracking in March 2013 so I have a year's history chart now. It has a diary function so you can relate your moods to what happened that day. It's also customizable. And you can back it up too. I found it very useful.

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[swheaton]

This is a good idea...it might help me track a pattern.

[robosuplex]

I agree. I am using mood tracking to find my patterns. It's partly to manage and partly to help me see if I am bipolar or not.

Mood tracker looks like it's a good fit. I like that it has a reminder function and that you can choose multiple moods and scale the intensity of each.

Optimism was ok but I always forgot to use it. Plus it's a little sparse in terms of moods to choose from. I sometimes have so many moods in one day it's hard to rate my overall mood with just one number.

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[r010159]

I have a problem with identifying mixed moods. For instance, I may be elevated and energetic. But at the same time I can be agitated and mean. Another type of hypomania? So I establish some guidelines for myself. Mixed for these purposes is when I have allot of energy but I experience the energy in negative unhappy ways where I even feel trapped sometimes. I am finding out I am rarely euphoric and spend allot my time dysphoric. And then after some time I can crash into moderate depression.