Use this templates to track your mood swings and help you identify root cause or triggers. Bipolar people have difficulty staying on focus so we also provide a daily planner and a spreadsheet to help you establish and track goals and objectives. www.thebipolarspectrum.com
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Bipolar Mood Diary And Planner
1. How to use this workbook?
Bipolar people are easily distracted and jump from thing to thing if you are not motivated or focused.
This workbook is intended to help you stay on top of what you want to do and how you feel day to day.
Mood Diary:
The mood diary will help you track and evaluate your day to day mood swings.
With more understanding comes acceptance and avoidance of triggers to help your mood stabilize
Triggers & Feelings:
Indentify common feelings (like anger, happiness, joy, frustration etc) and list those in this section then daily mark the feelings that were most prevelent.
Daily Planner:
I find that staying organized helps me get more done since it helps me focus. Bipolars are easily distracted although we are driven we can sometimes tend
to be all over the place. I find that planning my day helps me stay on course and helps me accoplish more.
Objectives or Goals
One of the challenges for bipolar people is that we tend to be very impatient and often set grandiose or unrealistic goals for ourselves. Because we are
impulsive often time we find ourselves losing track of our objectives and later feel frustration when things take to long or don't go the way we imageined.
The purpose of the planner for Goals and Objectives is simialr as the daily planner. If you can visualize what you are trying to do, you can then identify tasks
or specific things that must be completed in order to help you achieve your objective.
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2. Daily Bipolar Mood Diary
Daily Bipolar Mood Diary
Rate your daily mood by selecting the description below that matches how you feel every day.
Mood State 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
Elavated Mood
Severe
Moderate
Mild
Stable
Mild
Moderate
Severe
Depressed
Mild
Moderate
Severe
In the section below, list up to 5 feelings or sensitivities that you experience most regularly, e.g., (anger, dispair, frustration, misunderstood, happy, elated, etc.) Then mark the days during this period when you feel the different emotions
Triggers and Feelings
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3. Daily Planner Activity Tracker
DAILY PLANNER & ACTIVITY TRACKER Day Date
Time
Planned Items Task Completion Percentage
Task 1 Task 2 Task 3
9:00 AM Total Tasks
9:30 AM Completed Tasks
10:00 AM Pending Tasks
Percentage
10:30 AM
Completion
11:00 AM
11:30 AM Misc Errands
12:00 PM
12:30 PM
1:00 PM
1:30 PM
2:00 PM
2:30 PM
3:00 PM
3:30 PM Calls
4:00 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
6:30 PM
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4. Goal Planner
Objective or Goals
To be completed by: [Name]
Deadline: [Date]
Goal 1
% done Tasks Due By Notes
100% Planning
75% Preparation
50% Task a
25% Task b
0% Task c
0%
0%
0%
0%
Goal 2
% done Phase Due By Notes
6% Planning
30% Preparation
0% Task a
0% Task b
0% Task c
0% Task d
0%
0%
0%
Goal 3
% done Phase Due By Notes
10% Planning
100% Preparation
0% Task a
0% Task b
0% Task c
0% Task d
0%
0%
0%
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