Welcome to Mood History

Track your mood, sleep, and mental health journey with personalized insights designed for people with bipolar disorder.

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Why track your mood?

Recording your mood and your sleep over time will give you historical data to help you understand your mood in the past and help you recognize changes that can warn of an incoming episode. Our memory of how we felt in the past can be coloured by our current mood, but with Mood History it's all there in black and white. Solid data can help you advocate for yourself with medical professionals, evaluate if a medication is working for you, and help you identify patterns and triggers. On average it takes 9.5 years to diagnose bipolar disorder, our hope is that with clear data you can get help sooner.

What do you do with my data?

Your data is stored in a secure database and is only accessible to you. We do not, and will never, sell your data to third parties. You can request a copy of your data at any time, and if you want to delete your data then we will delete it from our database for you. Your data is your own.

What can I track?

We have an ever growing list of symptoms and events that you can track. You can track as many or as few of them as you want. The key is to be consistent and to track the things that are important to you. A few of the things you can track are:

Mood
Sleep

Do I have to be bipolar to use this?

Not at all! This tool is designed for people with bipolar disorder, mood disorders, or those who think they may be developing a mood disorder. However, good mental health awareness is for everyone! If recording your mood and sleep history can help you improve your mental health, then you should do it!

How does it work?

Simply sign up and start recording your mood and sleep. Over time you will build up a history that you can check out in your dashboard. You can see your mood and symptoms over time and look at any statistically significant patterns that might be helpful. It it very important to note that we are not medical professionals, and these statistics should be used as a guide to help you and ideally to aid in your conversations with your medical professionals.

Is it free?

Yes, Mood History is free to use. We do not charge for any of our features, sell ads, or sell your data. Our goal is to help other people with bipolar disorder, mood disorders, and to help people get those diagnoses sooner. We believe firmly that awareness of our own moods and early dignosis saves lives, and we don't want to profit from that.

Our Story

Mood History was created by, and entirely run by Liz. In their early 20s, everything suddenly became very difficult, severe depression struck out of nowhere. They got treatment for depression very quickly and things got better and then worse repeatedly, swinging from the darkest depression to suddenly being "better" and hyperatively trying to catch up on everything they'd missed when they were depressed. Through sheer luck, Liz had been tracking their mood with an app that a work project had brought up. It was originally intended to show how much green spaces affected people's mood, but ended up showing exactly how Liz's mood swung from one extreme to the other and how antidepressants set off these manic episodes. With this data printed out, Liz was able to show their doctor what was happening and managed to get diagnosed with bipolar disorder within a year of their first symptoms, drastically faster than most people. After that it was a lot of trial and error to find the right medication and treatments, but tracking their mood was essential to getting the right help. They ended up developing their own mood tracker with Google Forms and a lot of spreadsheet work, and this ended up being the inspiration for Mood History.

Without awareness it's really hard to spot the start of an episode or see how we got there. When we're depressed, it feels as if things have always been bad, and when we're fine it's hard to remember how awful things were, and mania can make us feel invincible or reluctant to believe that anything is wrong. By listening to how we felt in the past, we can change how we behave how to keep ourselves safe in the future.

That is the purpose of Mood History, Liz developed this to keep themself safe, to avoid being a statistic about early death caused by bipolar disorder, to try to hold their life together and to help others do the same. Know your history, save your future.