How do you monitor depression for yourself?

Posted by Tabitha on May 2, 2016, at 16:25:40

Hi. For those of you with mood disorders, I'm curious about how you self-monitor to notice that you are entering a depression. I get fooled time and time again because it comes on so slowly that the distorted thoughts seem true. I'm also used to putting up a normal-seeming front because I don't want to be a drag or seem crazy. Because of that, others don't notice my depression until it's really severe.
The end result of not successfully noticing I'm having another episode is that I go months or years without getting my treatment updated.
I keep thinking there must be some indicator I could learn to see. What do you folks do? Do you self-monitor or count on your pdoc or therapist to monitor you?

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How do you monitor depression for yourself? Tabitha 5/2/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » Tabitha SLS 5/2/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? Phillipa 5/2/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? SLS 5/2/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » Tabitha J Kelly 5/3/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » J Kelly SLS 5/3/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » SLS J Kelly 5/3/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » SLS Tabitha 5/3/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » Phillipa Tabitha 5/3/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » J Kelly Tabitha 5/3/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » Tabitha baseball55 5/3/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? rjlockhart37 5/3/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » Tabitha phidippus 5/6/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » phidippus Phillipa 5/6/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » phidippus J Kelly 5/6/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? Tabitha 5/6/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » Tabitha phidippus 5/6/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » phidippus Tabitha 5/6/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » Tabitha Phillipa 5/6/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » Phillipa Tabitha 5/7/16
Re: How do you monitor depression for yourself? » Tabitha phidippus 5/7/16
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