How useful is the mood traker ?

I was diagnosed BP2 in Dec, At the moment i think I am still recoverring from mixed episode and am still having some residual symptoms or swings? throughout the day, I think I would like to do a mood traker but how helpful is it if you have different swings in the morning, afternoon then evening, how I feel in the morning is very different to how I feel in the evening how does traking your mood help in this situation and in general> Am I better to create one in three periods of the day with my particular symptoms as I also have seen that this traker does not cover my medications and some of my symptoms ? any advise on this would be grateful  

[zzzmykids]

Hi and welcome to Medhelp.  I am fairly new as well but I am not knew to meds (10 years) or mood tracking.  I track daily on my own and journal mainly on my own too...just wrote my first journal entry here, today.  Any way, I track this way........
Check upon waking:
Mood
Energy level
Hungry, not hungry, craving?
Wieght
Want to crawl back under covers or get up
What I ate yesterday will most likely affect where I am on my depression scale.
Sugar, chocolate which we naturally crave, carbs.
Did I exercise the day before?
Does my skin feel creepy crawly when I hug my family
That's about it for me then I either go back to bed after breakfast and meds and read my Bible or sleep  or I get up and make an effort on being "normal" for the day
What meds do you take?

[LeftCoastChick]

I like the mood tracker, I just sort of add my moods up that night or the next day. I know they don't put all the moods or meds down, the tracker would be huge. There is a place at the bottom where you can add on other moods and feelings. I'm BP2/rapid cycler and mixed episodes, so my moods can change several times in a day, fun in a bun. I do print out my mood tracker and take it to my pdoc, as my memory isn't that great, and I may just feel dandy when I'm at the pdocs, so it really helps :)

[ILADVOCATE]

I think its good. I just made sure to set the journal entries to "private". I have always kept a journal (a sentence a day) of how I am doing since 2004 (mostly concerning medications and how they help or don't) but the mood tracker has some good details. But when I entered the "journal" section I forgot it could be read and although none of the entries were in any way inappropriate I didn't want the public to read them. So I set them to "private" and it pretty much works out.

[irishwriter]

i got tired of the mood tracker because i got fed up of always ticking the same boxes.!