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Balanced Thought Record

Complete the full 7-column thought record.

Week 8

Appendix H

The Outcome

6. Balanced Thought

7. Rate Mood Now (0-100%)

Behind the Behavior

What did they actually do or say? (Just the observable behavior — no interpretation)

What was your nervous system's first interpretation? (The story it wrote)

What mood state were they in? (Depressive, hypomanic, mixed, medicated/unmedicated)

Alternative explanation 1: Maybe they were feeling...

Alternative explanation 2: Maybe they needed...

Alternative explanation 3: Maybe the illness was making them...

What is it like to hold multiple explanations without picking one? What do you notice?

Compassionate Inquiry: Tracing the Shame

A recent moment when I felt shame in this relationship:

The story I told myself about what it meant:

When I first learned this story / whose voice it is:

Where I feel shame in my body:

If that shame belongs to the past, what is actually true right now?