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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. I developed and actively used The Grid for a period of about five years (2008 to 2012). I was told I would be on psychiatric medications for the rest of my life.