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.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Where to start?
Every now and then I take a break from what I'm doing with Mood Sentry to review how I started with it. I started with the My Experiences and the Reminders. I created these based on a one page sheet I created and reviewed every morning. Actually, there were two versions of this sheet. When I tried to transfer those pages to the phone for the convenience of having them wherever and whenever I needed, the one page format didn't work. It was just too cumbersome to scroll through the whole sheet on my phone's display. I reviewed each sheet and realized that each was effectively a reminder with examples of how different cognitive distortions manifest each day, with some suggestions of how I can mitigate their effects. That led me to create the My Experiences and Reminders functions of the app. I found it to be a good exercise to tailor the distortion list to my needs and figure others might get a benefit from doing the same. When I first started with the reminders I kept them short and simple, such as "think about your day and what might come up, then review My Experiences." As I used the reminders more, I added more detail and instructions. Note that "My Experiences" was originally titled "My Distortions." I changed it just in case someone is shoulder surfing. "My Experiences" just looks and sounds a bit less dramatic. Does this help?
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