Can Bearable track my chronic illness?

Yes. Bearable was designed to make it possible to track any type of chronic, rare, or hard-to-diagnose physical, mental, or neurological health condition. However, due to the vast number of different health conditions, not all of them are default options within the app. 

If your health condition doesn’t appear in the app, you can add it by following these steps:

1. 1. Tap the … icon on the Symptoms section
   2. Tap on the Add/edit symptoms option
   3. Tap on the Add Symptom Group button
   4. Name the symptom group after your condition e.g. Depression
   5. Select an icon and save the symptom group
   6. Tap into the symptom group
   7. Type a symptom in the search bar at the top of the screen to add it to the group
   8. Where needed, you can move existing symptoms from one group to another
   9. If the symptom exists across multiple conditions, you can name it with the condition in parentheses, e.g. ‘Irritability (Depression)’

Note. Optionally, you can track your condition as a symptom by adding e.g. Depression to the existing ‘Mental Health’ Symptom group. This will allow you to just track your condition overall, which some people find less overwhelming than tracking all of their individual symptoms. 

What we’ve personally found most helpful is to track only the highest priority symptoms of any condition i.e. the symptoms that you’re most struggling with. For example, instead of tracking all of the traits of ADHD, you might choose to only track:

• • Mood swings
  • Task paralysis
  • Stimming

The Symptoms section is used for tracking changes in symptom severity score, but if you’d like to also track symptom frequency, duration, or use a different scale (e.g. 0 to 10), you can do so by using Custom Health Measurements. To learn more about creating custom Health Measurements you can view our guide to setting these up:

• • Frequency & 0-10 Scale.
    https://youtu.be/C6LpL-xPYI8?si=2eP_f7sv2VUFzG8Z&t=3094

     

  • Frequency, Duration, and custom Severity scale.
    https://youtu.be/YmFYI88qgDY?si=Pa-mclfQ_fz7UAVf&t=285