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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

From 2001 to 2008, I was hospitalized for mania at a rate of almost once per year (7 times in 8 years)—including one month-long hospitalization. Whereas from 2001 to 2008 I was hospitalized at a rate of almost once per year, from 2008 to 2013, I was hospitalized only once every three years.