Posted by Cherry Carver on February 10, 2010, at 17:56:37
In reply to Re: Oregon University's new antidepressant » Cherry Carver, posted by floatingbridge on February 9, 2010, at 1:26:27
Thank you for the mood chart recipe! I'll get right on it--I think I need to be keeping track, since I'm off to see a shrink on 2/18. I used to keep a journal, but it turned into an entry-of-the-month kind of thing about various obsessions, and it is stunningly repetitive.
Indeed, that was a hellish month. I think it wrecked my metabolism forever. One night I had so many pills handed to me that I thought the number would kill me. (I always palmed my pills anyway--either I was really good at it, or the pharmacist never looked to see if I was swallowing more than just water.) I took only half the dosage they gave me that night. Next day I awoke barely able to move. They had to take me to ICU. Ack!!!
> CC, that's one heck of a month! My head spins just reading the list. Don't know all of them.
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> My mood chart is on graph paper--pretty homey. Mood (depression & anxiety) registered 3x per day (sometimes all at the end of the day); meds and dosage taken; certain activities (walking, therapy); plus any events of note, illnesses, pain level jotted in the header.
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> I also keep pages of notes on triggers, dreams, preoccupations, whatever. Over a year and a half now--enormously helpful to me. I am sooooo scattered!
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> SLS here has posted his own template of a mood chart. Google mood chart and all sorts of templates & examples come
> up.
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