Optimism's great strength is that it motivates you to be proactive about your health. It equips you to make decisions that benefit your well-being and it helps you to take control of your mental health.
How Do I Use It?
1.Start by customizing the fields to keep a personalized record of all activities and Thoughts that impact on your mental health - positive and negative.
2.Monitor the ones that Trigger episodes of illness, the early warning signs and symptoms they produce, and the Things that you do that help you to stay well. Numerous suggestions are provided.
3.Use simple to follow reports and charts to draw connections and discover relationships that you didn't Think were significant, or even existed.
4.Formulate your plan for staying well and for if things go wrong. Update it as you learn more about your health and which of your strategies are helpful or unhelpful
5.Take the reports and charts with you to appointments, or email them to your health professional or carer. Help them to provide you with a better treatment or ability to support you.
New features:
Days of the week have been added to the Report and Charts.
Saturdays and Sundays are in a different color on the Charts as a visual reminder that recordings may be significantly different for these days.
Headers have been added to pages 2 to 4 of the Charts PDF.
The grey "How you coped" line on the Charts is darker to make it more visible on print-outs.
It is much easier to close the pop-Up windows on the Charts.
