mood diaries

[luv1another]

ok I have to make a mood diary... like morning and evening and say how I felt and what was going on at the time and how happy sad etc I was at the time.

what I was wondering is has anybody ever had to do this before?
how did you do it?

was it beneficial?

[God_is_personal]

You say you "have" to keep a mood diary. Why do you "have" to? Who told you to, please? I've never done one, but I'm interested in reading what you have to say more about this, how it has to do with you.

You might see a pattern of what things have you too high or too low, because you make too big a deal out of these things and need to be more attentive to God and what is really the most important. He will give you peace.

[luv1another]

You say you "have" to keep a mood diary. Why do you "have" to? Who told you to, please? I've never done one, but I'm interested in reading what you have to say more about this, how it has to do with you.

You might see a pattern of what things have you too high or too low, because you make too big a deal out of these things and need to be more attentive to God and what is really the most important. He will give you peace.

bill I really dont want to be rude here but unless you know what your talking about don't comment thanks.
honestly you come into the threads I make and say I am making a big deal out of stuff...I bet you would have been one of Jobs friends who blamed him for what he was going through too right?
you have no idea and FYI thats one of my problems I didnt communicate that I had a problem and that has caused a problem in itself.

my counsellor has asked me to do a mood diary to work out what is happening to cause depression what events trigger it etc
God is important but he doesnt neccersarily bring you peace every time you ask for it.... sometimes you have to experience stuff in your life to actually understand others.

[God_is_personal]

Ok

[Jade]

ok I have to make a mood diary... like morning and evening and say how I felt and what was going on at the time and how happy sad etc I was at the time.

what I was wondering is has anybody ever had to do this before?
how did you do it?

was it beneficial?

I've often done mood charting.
I'm currently using www.moodtracker.com (http://www.moodtracker.com/)
I've found it useful remembering details such as how mood responds to medication and for looking for patterns or cycles.
This site has a setting for tracking mood once or twice per day.
And you can send automatic e-mail reminders if you haven't yet recorded a day's mood.

[Johnny MacManky]

I was supposed to do the mood diary thing a few years back when I was receiving psychological counseling, but I was very lazy and didn't bother. I think in part I was also kinda scared that I might get cured, cause that would then have meant I'd have to go back to work and re-join the rat race, and I figured (in my warped way) that I preferred to just stay as I was, rather than have to be 'responsible' again. Funny thing was, around that time a guy was preaching on Healing and mentioned the guy at the Pool of Bethesda who had been a cripple for 38 years, or so, and Jesus asking if he wanted to be healed. The preacher suggested that some ill people actually don't want to be cured, and I disagreed with him, yet in retrospect, I realise that what he was saying was, at least for me, absolutely true. Maybe by then I'd been ill for so long that it had become what I knew, and few of us like change.

So, where I am going with these rambling thoughts? Well for one, it's doing me good to just spill things out, especially knowing you two hobbitsies know where I'm at, and for another, I'm getting anti-spam points here! :woot: But the main point I'd like to make to you Kaziadoc is that, at times if/when we are suffering from depression or some kinda mind altering illness, we don't think straight and it's often beneficial to trust the advice and 'instructions' we are given by the professionals. Yeah, I know I didn't do as I was told, but in retrospect, I know it would have helped them to help me better if I had done the mood chart thing. So, try & keep up the diaries Kaz, and know that you have the love and what support we can offer you.

:worldapart: :johnny:

[luv1another]

hmm I am doing very badly at it :doh: I keep forgetting to do it and I dont check email everyday either:sigh:

[gharfish]

I've had counselors suggest that I keep such journals. My "presenting" problems were depression and anxiety. However, it seemed that it was the desire--plan--of the greater number of counselors to have me journal with the emphasis on self-examining my feelings of anger. I did, but what happened was not that it helped me (objectively ?) see what I was thinking/doing that it might be a way, a part, of getting closer to healing. It wasn't cathartic either. Instead, my anger accelerated during those 'experiments.' The anger monitoring was better left unsaid...unexpressed on paper.

[Piebald]

I've often done mood charting.
I'm currently using www.moodtracker.com (http://www.moodtracker.com/)
I've found it useful remembering details such as how mood responds to medication and for looking for patterns or cycles.
This site has a setting for tracking mood once or twice per day.
And you can send automatic e-mail reminders if you haven't yet recorded a day's mood.

This is great, thank you

[Jade]

This is great, thank you

your welcome. :smile: