"People who use these self monitoring diaries should be able to develop a greater sense of mastery and control not only of their symptoms but also their lives."

Dr Christopher Bass
Department of Psychological Medicine
The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Do you have a mood disorder - mood swings or depression, cyclothymia or bi-polar disorder? Do you suffer from chronic anxiety or panic attacks? Do you wonder if your symptoms have a pattern to them or could be better controlled by making dietary or lifestyle changes?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then the mood calming diary will help you.

• Start at any time of the year
• See clearly and easily the severity and patterns of your key symptoms
• Understand whether stress or lifestyle factors are making your symptoms worse
• Monitor the effect of any treatments or interventions
• Simple to use - highly effective - stylishly discreet

If you suffer from mood swings, depression or anxiety, understanding and controlling your symptoms can be quite difficult. This is why many health experts recommend keeping a daily record of your symptoms and the factors that may influence them. But this is easier said than done - what symptoms do you record? And more importantly, how do you record symptoms in a way that makes sense when it comes to reviewing them later? The mood calming diary will make recording and monitoring your symptoms easy - this can be an important step toward you taking control of your moods.

Your mood calming diary will fill the gap between your ‘expert' knowledge of yourself and the expert knowledge your doctor or specialist has about mood and anxiety disorders in general.

The diary's reflections pages will keep you in touch with what is happening with your moods week by week, while the specially designed symptom monitoring chart allows both you and your doctor or therapist to see at a glance how you are managing. 

If you take medication or make lifestyle changes, you can chart the results in your diary and really see if it is helping or not. You will be able to see trends as symptoms change as well as noticing any patterns and relationships between different symptoms.

The diary's straightforward guide to mood disorders includes advice about seeking alternative as well as conventional treatment and helpful advice on breaking the taboo - how to tell your family and friends about what is happening to you. 

There are nine million people in the UK alone who suffer from mood and anxiety disorders but the mood managing diary is about you - it's about helping you to understand your specific symptoms so that you can help yourself and sort them out.