Dr. Joy Kong recommends tracking your symptoms, food, exercise, and social interactions daily. Bring the data to your doctor, who can spot patterns you'd miss alone and adjust your diagnosis or suggest lifestyle changes that might solve the problem.
I would say the first thing that you need to do is write down all of your symptoms, whether it be the highs, whether it be the lows. Write down what you're eating in the day. Is that affecting maybe your mood? Is that changing the way you're, you're feeling? Are you exercising? Go for a walk. See if like you can get out of your head for a moment. And with all that information, then take that to a trained professional and say, hey, you know, I'm really concerned for X, Y, and Z. Here's what my symptoms have been. These are the things that I've been eating, this is the exercise I've been doing. Maybe see, are there certain people around you that are triggering you to maybe have certain behavioral aspects? Little things like that. But I think writing down is so important. You can provide so much more information and learn more about what could possibly be your diagnosis. Or maybe they're just like, hey, you have really like bad friends, you have bad eating habits, and you're not exercising. And just like, go for a walk around the block, like, you know,
