Just tried Moodscope...

[luckywinner]

Has anyone tried it? I heard about it on Woman's Hour last week. I am having a low today, which I am finding difficult after a huge succession of good days. I just had a go and think it might be helpful. Just wondered if anyone else had tried it.

Hi everyone - glad some of you are finding it helpful.

Just for info my score has varied from 5% (I really was very low and not well at that point) to 84% - very well, no anxiety, coping with anything, at ease, just happily geting on with life. (So for me I cant see how I would reach 100 as 84% is really me at my 'best' and everything feels all lovely.)

One thing I was going to say is that its almost impossible to compare your scores with anyone elses. Because how we grade ourselves is so different.

I once got my sister to do it (no history of anxiety or depression.) We had both had a very difficult day at work and were both really tired. BUT I felt ok in myself (ie. no depression or anxiety symptoms.) My score came out as 41% - so not a brilliant day but manageable. Whereas my sisters was only 15% (because she was so fed up with work.) I was also fed up with work but was so relieved that I felt 'Normal' fed up that my score was actually quite reasonable. On a bad day I know that I wouldnt have been able to cope with that stress at all well.

I hope that makes some kind of sense !!! .

Take Care

Hmm 22% this morning. Feeling more jittery/nervous/anxious than I would like.

I often wake up feeling like that, but it goes off as the day goes on. What have you got on today?

A question - are you supposed to score according to a snapshot of how you're feeling at the moment you fill it in, or at the end of the day, as a summary of the day's mood? I've been doing the latter.

I'm doing it as a summary on the previous 24 hours or so but doing it in the morning. Might change to evening at some point.

Need to pack for going away (me to work and children to stay with their dad while I'm away). Am probably nervous about seeing him as when I last did on Friday night it was very not good and got very upset. So that probably explains the jittery feelings.

Hope it goes ok seeing their dad Lawrie, would be good if you could find a way of dealing with him without you being affected by it so much.
Been steady at 28% for the last few days, but DH is off work with me and the childcare load is split, we're having lovely days out (although doing the 2 trolleyload monthly Adsa shop today while DH fishes with DS2 but I can mooch round the clothes section in peace and have chips for lunch with DD3.)
Getting much more sleep at the moment too, DD3 is just over 1 yr old & has severe reflux, it's been a hellish year, she's been in so much pain and we though it was resolved by about 8-9m, but it seems not. She's never slept through and recently was getting more restless at night, screaming out and thrashing around every so often. Ending up in bed with us about 4.30, but sometimes as early as 1am. Needing to be up and fed by 6ish, occasionaly earlier. Went back to docs last week as really did feel on the verge of a breakdown due to sleep deprivation and other issues I've talked about here. They've added a new medication to her existing one and she's so much more happy. Sleeps well, can even lie on her tummy without screaming in pain, she now likes to sleep on her tummy, and has stayed in her own bed asleep till 7.30 for two mornings this week. If she carries on like this, we can move her in with DD2 and have our room to ourselves again. I feel guilty that we didn't sort out what was obviously in hindsight a pain issue for her, we just thought she was a little bugger and was never going to sleep properly.
Hope all you fellow moodscopers are having a good (or at least ok) day today.xxx

It's only been about 6 weeks since he left and so I suppose I am likely to feel a bit up and down. Still too much limbo there - not sure if it is the end or not. But anyway am 200 miles away for work now until Sunday so that helps a bit. Apart from missing DC and there being nice weather now (is half term).

Will do my test now i think.

35% which I am content with. Don't think I am depressed at the moment but just need to keep an eye on myself which this is helping me to do.

Hi all,

Sorry I have not posted recently. I have been trying to relax with family in the countryside. It also meant I didn't moodscope as the internet is a little patchy out in them sticks. Today is a 32% day. Have got quite bad pmt so hoping that is affecting the mood.

I always do mine in the morning as I feel like it sums up my mood. But a friend does hers in the evening. I think it doesn't really matter, whatever works for you. I think the guilt card is the hardest, as i think guilt is prompted by certain situations and events, rather than a day. Does that make sense? But doesn't guilt just come wrapped in a packet handed to you once your baby is born?

We've got lovely sun here. Hope you all have a little ray of sunshine to brighten your days.
xx

Bugger, I know I am probably talking to myself today but it is giving me a bit of perspective. I have hideous pmt. My dd is v poorly on the sofa. It is tipping it down outside. I feel trapped in my head. My score was completely rubbish today. I am feeling very much like I will never get out of this hole.I am seeing a new psychiatrist tomorrow and it is making me very nervous and also it reminds me of how I am still in this mess. Yuck yuck yuck.

Poor you. I hate it when the DCs are ill - it always makes my mood nosedive. I dont know if you're the same, but it helps me to know there are reasons for my mood - the weather, illness, PMT, something Ive eaten (am sensitive to sugar and caffeine). I prefer to feel that the causes are external rather than the product of my mind. If that makes sense! I suppose because external events will change.

My scores are getting worse and worse :( Have been doing it in the evenings recently and think that I am maybe lower in the evenings generally. Down to 19% today and I didn't think I was that bad. But as it says, it is above my all time low of 15% (for some reason that makes me almost want to at the way they put it)

I'm perservering with it - though the graph seems a bit erratic! Just wanted to ask a question if that's ok with you fellow moodscopers? Basically do you know if you can view the graph across months (or see more than one month at a time)? I'm probably not explaining this very well but basically I need to see is a continuous graph as I find it difficult to see my progress across the May/June month change. Can this be done? Thanks.

Btw I think I read on Moodscope that it advises a morning reading because you've not been influenced by the day (just by a bad night ). That said I do mine in the evening - I have no desire to switch on a computer in the morning.

But my mood is entirely influenced by the day!! There's no way I'd do it in the mornings - I'd get about 2% most days...

Chocattack - I'd like to see across the months too. But don't think you can do it - unless you printed them out and stuck them together? (can you tell I'm high-tech?)

I know what you mean about being able to see a continuous graph and I haven't found a way.

I generally feel better in the mornings or at least if I feel rubbish I know it is a really bad day. Thinking about it I do have certain things I am stressed about so maybe my score shows they are stressing me more than I thought

Well today is a 25% day. I need a card saying flat as a pancake. Mine would be extremely, pretty much all the time at the mo. I do my chart usually in the morning. Only because that is when I have most time to myself.

I don't think you can see across the months either. I just had a quick look at the website and there isn't a way you can do it.

I am not sure there is really a point to doing these charts except to chat to you lot.

Sphil I also find when the children are ill my most difficult time. It is nice to hear someone agree as I don't feel like an uncaring monster. Of course I look after them and cuddle them up, put on endless episodes of scooby doo, but it makes me feel so trapped. I have to step out into the garden, just to breath the outside air to make me feel a bit less claustrophobic. I know that sounds a little dramatic. I also know pmt is a killer for me. And the one big thing that is freaking me out is I am off to see a new psychiatrist this evening and I am really nervous about it. That is also what is making me feel foul. Oh happy days. I am off to play Monty Python's bright side of life. Even if it is a shit song!!

Lots of xxx to you all

I'm glad it wasn't just me that couldn't work it out. (sphil I LOLed at the sticking the printed graphs together!! Very hi-tech indeed ).

I'm opposite to you Lawrie - if I feel ok in the mornings it's generally a good day. I generally feel like shit in the morning then by early-pm usually manage to generate enough adrenalin to get going.

Off to do my cards now... hope the psyc appt wasn't too nerve racking luckywinner .

Well I felt more anxious today - mainly to do with work - so gave myself ' quite a bit' for all the nervous, jittery etc cards, but pretty much the same as nrmal for everything else and ended up with 20% less than my lowest score ever. And I really dont think its been that bad today.

How is it possible to go from feeling fantastic, 36% yesterday, best ever, steadily creeping up, looking forward to DH's day off and going out to lunch. Woke up fine, feeling great, was anticipating a best ever score. Then DH says something so innocent that make me think of the situation at his work and i fall apart. Crying, unable to cope, probably spoiled the day and scored a 12%, would have been lower i think but I said I was extremely alert as I was full of adrenalin:(

I think I've now just destroyed my marriage.

Took test again, down to 5% Just back from the docs, he's given me betablockers on top of normal AntiD's as I've been having anxiety/hysterical attacks, getting worse atm. Husband still here just, but we're hardly talking. I just want him to wrap his arms around me and tell me he loves me and that everything will be ok, but I just make him so angry.

How are you feeling today five? Do you want to talk about what has been happening?

Hey Five sorry I didn't see these messages until today. How are you doing today? It is so hard to go from feeling great, to feeling low. What was it that your dh said? The most harmless of comments can be huge triggers, ones that are buried so deeply you are not always aware of them. I think our dhs struggle when we are so low. They like to think they can fix it for us. But they can't and I think it makes them feel lost and can often make them feel frustrated and angry that they can't make it go away. Do you think that may be true for your dh?

Poor mental health is crippling. It is invisible to others, yet I don't think there is much else that can cause such long term suffering, not just to the person experiencing it, but the people around them too.

Thinking of you and will keep more of an eye out for this thread.
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Been slowly creeping up in scores, but starting to feel shaky and anxious again tonight. He's goig back in again tomorrow, and I hate the feeling that leaves me with. Feel like my heart is going to explode out of my chest and like crying the whole time. See my counsellor on tuesday.

Hi Five, have you done your score today? How are you feeling?

My score is 38% today which is strange as I feel quite shit, yet bizarrely optimistic. How the hell does that fit together?! Been for a swim this morning so that might be making me feel better. My brother is a tai chi master and he is going to teach me tai chi, which I think may help long term.

Hope everyone is struggling along.
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My scores are all over the place - have had high of 61% (still not sure how that happened) down to 15%. Was 40% yesterday and day before 23%. Will keep on doing it though.