Portfolio III - mood disorders PDF

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You are asked to upload a weekly mood diary and reflect on your mood over the past week including factors that may have affected your mood positively or negatively and why. Also reflect on what it was like for you to complete the mood diary, what impact did it have on you? (In less than 300 words, t...

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Date: May 10, 2020

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You are asked to upload a weekly mood diary and reflect on your mood over the past week including factors that may have affected your mood positively or negatively and why. Also reflect on what it was like for you to complete the mood diary, what impact did it have on you? (In less than 300 words, the word count does not include the mood diary)

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MOOD DIARY Worksheet About this worksheet Mood monitoring involves recording an individual’s overall mood across the course of a week and can be of particular benefit to individuals experiencing depressed mood. Monitoring the way an individual feels can help them, or their psychologist, obtain a better understanding of how their mood fluctuates over time and the circumstances which impact their mood in either a positive or negative way.

Instructions The aim of this worksheet is to record your overall mood and activities everyday for a week. Using the chart on the next page: 1. Record the day of the week and the date. 2. For each day, rate your overall mood on a scale from 0 to 10, where ‘0’ indicates your worst mood and ’10’ indicates your best mood, across three different time points (i.e., morning, midday, and evening). 3. At the end of each day, note down the events of that day in the space provided. This includes the activities you participated in, the positive and negative aspects of the day, and how many hours sleep you had the night before. An example entry has been made in the first column of the chart. Remember to bring this worksheet to the next session with your psychologist.

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Midday

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Monday

Tuesday

Date: 4/5 PM

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Friday

Date: 7/5

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Thursday

Wednesday

Date: 5/5

Midday

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DAY 3

Midday

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Saturday

Date: 8/5

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Review of the day What activities did you do today?

Work, gym

What where the good things about today?

Going to dinner wi th a friend

What were the bad things about today?

Argument with supervisor

How many total hours of sleep did you have last night? Other comments? (e.g., medications taken, thoughts or worries

5 hours

Felt low this morning, didn’t want to get up.

Stayed home Watched movies, bought books

Stayed home, bought books

Dinner with family, boyfriend’s birthday tired

Nothing in particular

Buying books

Nothing in particular

Tired

9 hours

9 Hours

9 hours

Groceries, books, Murder mystery dinner, costumes for tomorrow, bought preparations, groceries lego

Built Lego

Homework/uni, Lego, watched movie with family Lego, costumes, Murder mystery Had a good chill Lego, Mother’s books dinner day day, being with family Nothing that I can think of

8 hours

Anxiety while at Upset and cryingVery tired, no shops, blood for no reason in motivation test the P.M 7 hours

6 hours

8 hours

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This week my moods have been up and down, but this is fairly usual for me. I did, however, have one night where I was upset for no apparent reason. I am quite hormonally unstable so it could have something to do with that.

This week my boyfriend had his birthday which we celebrated on Friday. This had a significant impact on my mood, I found myself to be a lot happier than I usually am. However, this week I have had a number of doctors’ appointments, including blood tests and the scheduling of an upcoming surgery, which put quite a damper on my mood.

I also had to go grocery shopping a few times this week. With the current Coronavirus pandemic, the shops were unusually busy which created a significant amount of anxiety for me, however I was able to leave before my mood escalated any further.

Completing the diary this week forced me to become more aware of my current moods, perhaps creating a sense of mindfulness. However, this made me realise that I have a lot more negative moods than I originally thought I did, which made me a little upset. I completed the mood diary each night which also allowed me to reflect on the day, and how the activities of the day impacted my mood. I think it was a very healthy realisation and I may even continue to complete a mood diary to allow myself to be more introspective and mindful of my moods....