mood charting Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:15:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 mood charting Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 eMoods Insights – Sophisticated Mood Tracking App https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/emoods-insights/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/emoods-insights/#respond Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:13:17 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=19571 Some of our patients here at Gateway started using this mood tracker from eMoods. We would like to share some information about the app for the benefit of those interested in using it. eMood is a free mood tracking app that runs on your phone and on your desktop via a web browser. It allows you to easily chart your ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/emoods-insights/feed/ 0 19571 Retrospective Mood Charting https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/retrospective-mood-charting/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/retrospective-mood-charting/#respond Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:04:38 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=15232 Once again we are reminded of the power of retrospective mood charting to transform treatment. A young man who has “tried every medication” without any success and has been seriously suicidal, recently came in to see us and we convinced him to try putting together a retrospective mood chart. The process was quite time intensive, but the result was a ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/retrospective-mood-charting/feed/ 0 15232 Measurement Based Care Controversies https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/measurement-based-care-controversies/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:21:37 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=12314 Measurement based care often evokes controversies. A brilliant colleague, Carol Heckler, who is something of a local expert in psychopharmacology, interrupted a conversation I was having with another psychiatrist to say that she thought that standardized rating scales were useless. Echoing comments that I’ve heard from many of my patients, she said “how can you reduce human experience to a number?” This ...

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]]> 12314 Mood Charting for Complicated Problems https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/mood-charting-for-complicated-problems/ Thu, 03 Dec 2015 16:15:05 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=9433 I want to share a link to a blog post one the Moodsurfing site which talks about the value of mood charting when trying to understand complicated problems. The story is about Lucy, a patient at Gateway (name changed, of course) and our session yesterday. I think that the story neatly illustrates why keeping track of symptoms is so important when ...

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