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.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Feeling of Doom Today
I woke early this morning with a general feeling of doom. I've posted about this in the past, and it's something I've dealt with on occasion since I was a kid. It's this feeling that something bad is going to happen today, but I don't know what it will be. I know I'm going through a period of depression right now that's deeper than normal. That's making it difficult for me to set some time aside to use Mood Sentry. Here's the thing though, when I do use it I feel a bit better. I've used the app for over a year and a half now and over that time I've built up plenty of entries that can help me address the thoughts that come up during bouts like this. In times like this I usually find that a little push to use the app helps, which was the driver for having the reminders in the app. However, today it just wasn't enough. I finally got around to opening the app late this afternoon and saw some entries that helped me feel a bit better. I checked my prioritization scheme which helped me realize that I'm tackling the important stuff. I checked my daily goals and realized that I haven't updated that in a couple of days. Oops. I reviewed some Essays and Observations that indicated simply doing something when I'm feeling like this can help, which is kind of funny because when I pushed myself to do something I felt a bit better. Looking back on the day it went pretty well so far and I see no reason for that to change. Let's see what tomorrow brings.
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