Optimism Helps You Track and Manage Your Mental Health
Windows / OS X / iOS / Internet: Your emotional state can change throughout the day, and there are certain things that you might not even be aware of influencing your mentality. Optimism monitors your mental health and helps you find these emotional triggers.
The app is free and relatively easy to use. It includes four main tabs where you enter data for the day:
- Basic data : Basic information about your mood and habits.
- Health Maintenance Strategies : You record data on potential health maintenance strategies. Exercise, outdoor activities, professional support, etc.
- Triggers : You will identify potential emotional triggers or stressors: lack of sleep, relationship problems, social events, etc.
- Symptoms : On this tab, you add a little more detail about how you are feeling: your level of irritability, sadness, guilt, poor concentration, etc.
Each tab includes custom fields. In these fields, you simply write down how you feel and what activities you completed that day. It’s kind of like a journal in which you write down your own habits and feelings, but instead of writing your thoughts, you ask a series of questions every day.
It doesn’t take long, and when you have enough data, you can check their Charts & Reports tab. This allows you to see how your mood fluctuates over a period of time, and you can also see how this compares to activities such as your schedule and sleep quality.
The app appears to be aimed at people with depression, bipolar disorder and other conditions, but it is useful for anyone looking to keep an eye on their mental health. By tracking things like triggers, symptoms, and health-related behaviors, you gain a better understanding of how you can manage your mental health.
You must use your registration email to use the app, but they take great care to keep your information secure. Through their security policy:
The only personally identifiable information stored on the server is email addresses and names. Email addresses and passwords are encrypted.
We use PostgreSQL database to store customer records. PostgreSQL is a mature object-relational database that has been open source since 1996. The PostgreSQL Global Development Group (PGDG) takes security seriously, so users can be confident in the security of the database and applications built on top of it. Their approach provides great configuration options, providing a secure, reliable database and seamless integration with our applications.
You can read more about their policies here . For now, the phone app is only available for iOS, and while they don’t mention any plans for Android, they have a web app version linked below. You can also download the desktop version for Windows and Mac from this link.