The benefits mood tracking for your mental health are numerous, including:
- being able to identify triggers, patterns and cause-effect relationships
- having an increased degree of mindfulness and introspection
- tracking your physical health (symptoms, medication, improvements)
- knowing yourself better through the lens of your emotions, your reactions and your routines – make sense of each of these components of your life by recording and analysing them
- becoming more rational – by seeing your emotions objectively
For a more detailed outline, please refer to this article.