A Personal Roadmap
Mood scale:
- + for mania, - for depression
- +/- 3 may require an out-patient day program but does not necessarily require removal from my normal surroundings.
- +/- 4 requires an out-patient day program, removal from my normal surroundings, and possibly a brief hospitalization. At this level I have not totally lost contact with reality.
- +/-5 requires a period of hospitalization, removal from my normal surroundings, followed by an out-patient day program. At this level I have lost contact with reality.
Mood swing indicates a transition of mood from one pole to the other. Religious, faith healing, and work, indicate episodes initiated by the triggers discussed in "Figure Your Trigger."
| Date | Mood | Duration | Trigger | Treatment |
| Jan 72 | -4 | 12 weeks | none | hospital, ECT |
| May 72 | -4 | 4 weeks | none | hospital |
| May 75 | -3 | 1 week | none | none |
| Jan 77 | -3 | 1 week | none | none |
| Mar 77 | +3 | 2 weeks | mood swing | none |
| Jan 78 | -4/+4 | 2 weeks | none | day program |
| Feb 78 | -4 | 4 weeks | none | day program started lithium |
| Aug 78 | +4 | 2 weeks | none | day program |
| Sep 79 | +4 | 1 week | none | day program |
| Aug 81 | +5 | 3 weeks | religious | hospital |
| Apr 82 | +5/-5 | 10 weeks | religious faith healing |
hospital |
| Jul 85 | +4 | 2 weeks | work | day program |
| Aug 85 | -4 | 3 weeks | mood swing | hospital |
| May 86 | +3 | 5 days | work | self-medication |
| Jun 86 | +3 | 5 days | work | self-medication |
| Sep 86 | +4 | 2 weeks | work | day program |
| Oct 86 | +3 | 4 days | work | self-medication |
| Oct 86 | +4 | 5 weeks | religious | hospital |
| Dec 86 | -4 | 3 weeks | mood swing | day program |
| Sep 87 | +4 | 2 weeks | work | day program |
| Apr 88 | +4 | 2 weeks | work | day program |
| May 88 | +5 | 5 weeks | work | hospital switched to carbamazipine |
| Jan 91 | +3 | 3 weeks | none | emergency room/analysis |
| Mar 91 | +4 | 4 weeks | none | hospital |
| Feb 94 | +3 | 2 weeks | none | day program |
| Jan 02 | +3 | 5 days | none | sleeping pills |