This is the blog for Mood Apps, a mobile app development company dedicated to developing apps that support mood management, and more specifically for their Android app Mood Sentry. Mood Sentry is designed to support people in therapy for mood disorders such as anxiety and depression. Mood Sentry (www.moodsentry.com) supports a cognitive therapy approach to mood management. I'll post thoughts relevant to my efforts to manage my depression and how I use Mood Sentry.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Emotional Reasoning
If you read the examples, you can see that I rate emotional reasoning fairly high in regards to things I need to address. I've battled depression since I was a kid, and can find myself in a low mood at times. During those times my thoughts can be pretty bleak, focusing on stuff that's not working, amplifying their importance, forecasting conflict, you probably know the pattern. Catching these thoughts and recognizing that they are actually distortions of reality can help me recover sooner, or keep me from sinking deeper. Not bad. This is where the app can help. I use it to remind myself that I've been there before, and give myself some ideas on how to deal with where I am (or was). Good stuff.
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