Tracking mental health Part 2:
Use a Mental Health App
In today’s digital world, there are numerous mental health apps designed to help individuals track their moods, anxiety, and overall emotional well-being. These apps often come with features like mood ratings, meditation exercises, and helpful reminders to practice self-care.
How to do it:
Download an app that suits your needs. Some popular options include Daylio, Moodfit, and Calm. Calm is a good app that, to me, primarily focusses on sleep and “Calming” down. Daylio is a thorough app. You can create a daily entry – pick mood and activities. They crunch the data and display them in stats, charts, and correlations. But you can also write notes, use writing templates, attach photos or record voice memos. Log your emotions at various points during the day, rating your mood or selecting relevant feelings. Set reminders for check-ins and self-care tasks to ensure consistency. Moodfit is based on the relationship between your thoughts, feelings & behaviors all happening in the context of your nervous system. To get different results they help you change your thinking and regulate your emotions.
Why it works: Mental health apps are convenient, quick, and accessible. They provide data visualization and trend analysis that can help you identify emotional patterns and triggers. Many apps also offer mindfulness exercises to improve mental health day by day.
Lets be honest, we all spend our fair share of time on our phones. Engaging in an app that can assist in improving our mental health might be a great way to spend our screen time. It takes time and care to improve overall mental health. We need to take the time and put forth effort in our mental state just as we would with a physical ailment.
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