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Optimism Software is broken into several sections, which help you to track various aspects of your recovery.
For example, in the “Stay Well Strategies” section, you can list the things that you know, or suspect, are beneficial to your health. The fields have been set up with lots of ideas to get you started.
In the “Triggers” section of the screen you can monitor the things that make your mental health worse, that is, things that can “trigger” symptoms of a deterioration. List the things that you know or suspect are detrimental to your health. The fields have been set up with lots of ideas to get you started, including eight fields that are inactive in the custom window.
Use the “Symptoms” section of the screen to monitor your symptoms or early warning signs. Be as specific as you can so that when you examine the details on the Graph and Report you can more easily examine the relationships between your Triggers and Symptoms. The Symptoms section has been filled with plenty of fields as examples to get started with.
And you can use the custom windows to remove the fields that aren’t relevant to you and to add ones that are. You can also reorder them so that the most important fields for you appear first on the screen. You can have up to 20 fields showing for each of the Stay Well Strategies, Triggers and Symptoms sections.
To find out more, visit Finding Optimism.
To read more Beyond Blue, go to http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue, and to get to Group Beyond Blue, a support group at Beliefnet Community, click here.
To subscribe to “Beyond Blue” click here.
You can change the headings of the 3 sections in the program Preferences.
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posted June 26, 2009 at 5:39 am
an electronic WRAP! yay! I can’t wait to try it after I get back from vacation.
I have no problem writing in my journal, but it is hard for me to see trends. That has always made the 1-10 Group Beyond Blue my ‘touch base’ and I can see how many good v not-so-good days I had over the weeks.
BTW, I have to laugh at your comment about being more regimented about sleep when you get a ‘this is brilliant’ moment…. as you can see by the time stamp, I had one of those tonight (mopping my floor at 4:30 am seemed brilliant… so did doing three loads of laundry and pulling out the pledge to dust and scouring the kitchen and sorting the mail…. you get the idea….)
Birds are chirping… morning comes early this time of year….