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When mood tracking becomes part of the problem

I've been tracking my moods obsessively for months and now I feel like I'm creating the patterns I'm trying to monitor.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Excessive self-monitoring can paradoxically influence and amplify the very states being observed.

Ideas that help explain it
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