Posted by SLS on May 2, 2016, at 18:19:09
In reply to How do you monitor depression for yourself?, posted by Tabitha on May 2, 2016, at 16:25:40
> Hi. For those of you with mood disorders, I'm curious about how you self-monitor to notice that you are entering a depression. I get fooled time and time again because it comes on so slowly that the distorted thoughts seem true. I'm also used to putting up a normal-seeming front because I don't want to be a drag or seem crazy. Because of that, others don't notice my depression until it's really severe.
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> The end result of not successfully noticing I'm having another episode is that I go months or years without getting my treatment updated.
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> I keep thinking there must be some indicator I could learn to see. What do you folks do? Do you self-monitor or count on your pdoc or therapist to monitor you?I imagine the prodrome symptoms differ from person to person. For me, the early signs of depression are feeling lazy. I am less interested and motivated to do things. Eventually, I begin to feel drained of energy and vegetative. I tend to stare into space. I lose my ability to read with comprehension and exhibit memory impairments. I become less interested in being around people and am generally less social.
I don't know if a mood chart would help:
http://www.bipolarscotland.org.uk/leaflets/mood-monitoring.pdf
I used this one for a little while.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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