Mood Diary

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How do those of you with BPD or bipolar document your moods/emotions when you experience rapid extreme changes several times a day?
Every app you see online or diaries in shops are aimed at how the whole day has been which doesn't help if your having various extremes every few hours?
Even any tips on how you document it on paper would give me a good place to start....

Hi, I have Bipolar too. I don't keep a mood diary anymore as I am relatively stable, and quite adept and knowing when I need some help these days, but used too when I was less stable than I am now. Initially I started using an A5 diary, and would record numbers from the mood scale at various times of day, and note what I had been doing. Then I progressed to putting that information into an Excel spreadsheet and producing a graph of my mood over the month - that was quite useful for spotting patterns and trends. I then thought surely someone has automated this process, and while researching I found a mood tracking app called Daylio. It was so much easier to use the app to record my scores, activities etc... and it will give you reminders on your phone to record details, and will churn all the data for you. I got really into it and found it very helpful, so paid the small one off fee to go from the free version to the paid version. So my recommendation is Daylio in the Google Play Store.