Abbigail Davis
Behavior Tracking: 07/17-07-22
My goal for tracking my emotions and behaviors for this assignment was to figure out if
anything specific helps me to feel better and helps my mental health symptoms. I struggle with
depression and anxiety and am medicated for this. Recently however, my psychiatrist put me on
a mood stabilizer so I actually brought this up to my therapist and we worked on tracking my
mood throughout the week together and went over it. Honestly I think the thing that made the
most difference was just paying attention to how I was feeling and what I was doing when I felt
the best. Even though I wasn’t doing it with the goal of changing any behaviors, I noticed that
kind of naturally as I started picking up on patterns, I began to do that behavior more the next
day. An example of this would be 07/18 (which was my birthday). I normally have a lot of
depression surrounding my birthday and prefer to not do anything. However I went to a yoga
class the morning of my birthday and it really pulled me out of my slump. When I was feeling
low again on Thursday, I signed up for another yoga class (not necessarily to make myself feel
better) but because I genuinely wanted to. I think tracking behavior without attaching judgements
or “good” or “bad” labels can naturally help people pay more attention to how they're feeling and
what they are spending their time doing.