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Monster on the Hill
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If your baseline is pretty reactive (like, say, you also have BPD, ADHD, and PTSD...), what should you look out for when you see looking back you were more out of control than usual during mania, but remember at the time you felt perfectly normal, or admitted that you weren't super into thinking about consequences but that's "just you"?
I don't know. I don't have a consistent baseline to refer to. Too many variables, too little information, a lot of inaccuracies... __________________ [Insert thought-provoking and comedic quote here] |
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I had to use emoods on my phone and track a while. There was a better one but I forgot what it was when switching my phone years ago. It asks for the highest and lowest for the Day.
__________________ Dx: Me- SzA Husband- Bipolar 1 Daughter- mood disorder+ Comfortable broken and happy "So I don't know why I'm tongue tied At the wrong time when I need this."- P!nk My blog |
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Poohbah
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Yeah eMoods is really helpful.
I got the lifetime license ($14) years ago and it's well worth it for me. There's also Daylio, which is pretty popular. __________________ * Dx: Unspecified Bipolar and Related Disorder * Rx: Remeron, Prozac, Klonopin My avatar picture is a photo of the Whirlpool Galaxy I took in April 2023. I dedicated this photo to my sister who passed away in July 2016. |
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Monster on the Hill
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I think I used eMoods a while back, but I couldn't figure out how to "categorize/label/quantify" what was happening each day and if I looked back, unless there were notes with it, I wouldn't be able to tell if it was an "oh shyt, bipolar episode coming in hot, break out the (whatever med they wanted me to take)!" or a "heyyy, maybe you're a bit more intense because someone's knife is ripping the stitches off those unhealed childhood wounds, and you need to not be around people with knives (and put your own down for the love of God!)"
I think it'd be a really good idea for me to go back to journaling every day, and actually include plans vs what I did along with whatever thoughts/feelings I need to get out. I used to be able to look back and just say "oh, I was manic when I wrote this" or depressed or mixed or dissociated or just straight up being at various points of an emotionally dysregulated journey based on how much I wrote, what I wrote, and how I wrote it. __________________ [Insert thought-provoking and comedic quote here] |
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I believe emoods has notes.
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