Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with recurrent depression/anxiety...
by hayst4ck on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:07AM
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I journal-ed daily with an app that asked you to rate each day from 1-10 and write a small blurb.
It was extremely clear what my triggers were. The sustained changes of mood were very clearly visibly graphed and the blurbs, even with almost no effort at all applied to writing them (many were just: "ok day"), made it very clear what the inflection points were.
I was very surprised just how much the results of a single day can change the subjective day to day experience for weeks without being consciously aware of the single days happenings that caused the change.
It was extremely clear what my triggers were. The sustained changes of mood were very clearly visibly graphed and the blurbs, even with almost no effort at all applied to writing them (many were just: "ok day"), made it very clear what the inflection points were.
I was very surprised just how much the results of a single day can change the subjective day to day experience for weeks without being consciously aware of the single days happenings that caused the change.