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Default Sep 27, 2024 at 04:30 PM
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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...

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Default Sep 27, 2024 at 04:50 PM
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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.

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Default Sep 27, 2024 at 05:46 PM
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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.

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Default Sep 28, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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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.

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I believe emoods has notes.

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Default Oct 12, 2024 at 01:16 AM
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I thought you would talk about Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) | QxMD when I saw the thread's topic.

It is actually a very interesting scale for me. My responses vary wildly from line to line. In some ways I am impulsive and in others, not at all.

What is your score on this scale?

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I thought you would talk about Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) | QxMD when I saw the thread's topic.

It is actually a very interesting scale for me. My responses vary wildly from line to line. In some ways I am impulsive and in others, not at all.

What is your score on this scale?
I had never heard of that scale! Thank you for showing me it!

Here are my results:

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Results for Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) by QxMD

BIS-11 Total Score: BIS-11 Total Score: 91

1st Order Factors Scores:
Attention Score: 19
Cognitive Instability Score: 12
Motor Score: 19
Perseverance Score: 11
Self-Control Score: 20
Cognitive Complexity Score: 10

2nd Order Factors Scores:
Attentional Score: 31
Motor Score: 30
Nonplanning Score: 30
I hope this bumps my GPA up

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Default Oct 12, 2024 at 06:22 AM
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Not sure what your day to day is like, but maybe with more structure it will be easier to identify periods of instability or impulsivity. The hard part is retracing ones emotional steps to find where it came from, in my opinion

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Default Oct 12, 2024 at 09:37 PM
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Oh goody, a quiz!!!!

Here's how I scored...
BIS-11 Total Score
BIS-11 Total Score: 55
1st Order Factors Scores
Attention Score: 8
Cognitive Instability Score: 7
Motor Score: 13
Perseverance Score: 5
Self-Control Score: 11
Cognitive Complexity Score: 11
2nd Order Factors Scores
Attentional Score: 15
Motor Score: 18
Nonplanning Score: 22

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Default Oct 12, 2024 at 09:40 PM
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Oh @MuddyBoots, you beat me! Well done!!!!

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