Daylio (popular mood tracking app; I've been trying it for about two weeks) is pretty nice. It feels wholesome to spend a couple minutes reflecting on my day in a kinda structured way, even though so far I haven't really gotten any insight out of it.
My guess is that it feels healthy for some reason like, if I'm spending a little metacognition on (nonjudgmentally) remembering my day, it feels clearer that I care about myself, and maybe that I'm not trying to erase parts of my experience.
I've been a little surprised to notice that most days have been "good" over those two weeks. No "rad" days yet, but also only two "meh" days, and no "bad" or "awful" days. I would have expected that my modal day was "meh". I might just have been lucky recently, though.
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Chana
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Sam FM
in reply to Ben Weinstein-Raun • •I'm curious how you evaluate your days. When I tried Daylio for a year, I struggled to figure out how to consistently apply the 5 star scale. What's a tired day where I wake up sick, and thoroughly enjoy taking a break and being indulgently be lazy. What's a day full of Eustress?
(I was also recording three ratings a day. Maybe it would have been easier to see trends if I did the normal single daily rating)
Ben Weinstein-Raun
in reply to Sam FM • •I'm mostly evaluating a question like "how far from my depression and anxiety low-water-line was I today?"
So eustress is just solidly good; tiredness is bad but not very bad, even anger or wholesome sadness are basically fine. Really bad stuff, for me, is like, feelings of worthlessness or despair, and things that are not those things mostly count upward.