By Adrian Zupp
The first step to improving your mental health is knowing yourself. Sounds simple, right? And actually, with the right tools it is.
As you probably know by now, Military Pathways® offers several anonymous, online, mental health screenings that are free and available 24/7. These screenings include: depression, alcohol, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a brief screen for adolescent depression.
And there are other tools that can be of great benefit to individuals struggling to understand their own mental health. Several of these have been featured in this blog and now we have another one for you. Called the T2 Mood Tracker and developed by the National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2), the Tracker is a FREE mobile app that is bound to be of great interest to military personnel.
With this app, the user can select various mood choices to track his or her mood over days, weeks or months. There’s also the facility to add notes about the environmental setting or emotional experience at the time.
This way a kind of “mood log” is recorded digitally, making it easy to refer to when looking at one’s own mood shifts or to share with a health care professional.
Knowledge is power, and self-knowledge has power over mental disorders. So use the technological tools at your disposal and find your way back to mental health on the double.
Adrian Zupp is the marketing and communications writer for Screening for Mental Health, Inc.
