Recent Additions
Two new posts are shown below - February's statistics, as well as a series of graphs illustrating how my moods fluctuate throughout the week and from mornings to evenings.
The Monte Mood Scale records daily ups & downs in 3 categories: Overall Mood; Joy, Peace & Laughter; and Urge to Self-Harm/Suicide. The scale for each category ranges from 0 to 5, and is rated 3 times per day (I use 3 five-hour blocks beginning at 7am). Unless otherwise noted, all figures represent monthly totals standardized to 30-day months.
Two new posts are shown below - February's statistics, as well as a series of graphs illustrating how my moods fluctuate throughout the week and from mornings to evenings.
Feb 2006 | Jan 2006 | Dec 2005 | Feb 2005 | Feb 2004 | |
Overall | 162 | 143 | 212 | 101 | 10 |
Joy Etc. | 148 | 129 | 98 | 152 | 230 |
Self-Harm | 106 | 79 | 151 | 11 | 6 |
Suicidal Days | 18 | 16 | 22 | 3 | 2 |
Xanax Used (mg) | 20.4 | 16.9 | 26.1 | 1.6 | 2.1 |
I've crunched a zillion numbers to come up with these graphs illustrating my average ratings for each day of the week. The red lines indicate morning scores while the blue lines indicate evening scores. Dashed lines represent my 3-year average; solid lines represent the past year. The most obvious conclusions are: 1) Mornings tend to be better than evenings; 2) Friday evenings are the worst; and 3) The past year was significantly worse than average. (Remember: high scores are "bad" except on the Joy Etc graph.)
[There may be an easier way to do this, but to enlarge the picture try the following: click on it once; after it fully reappears in a new window, hover the mouse over the picture and click on the icon that appears in the lower right corner. At least in Internet Explorer this seems to work.]