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April 30, 2021September 17, 2024

Who really makes you happiest? How to track your Social Life and Mood to get useful insights

Ever wondered who really makes you happiest?

Being more mindful about who you hang out with and what impact they have on your mental and even physical health, can help you to make some valuable decisions regarding your social life. There are so many ways you can use Bearable, and this is just one of them. Below I’ll show you how you can set up the app to help you track your mood and your social life, so you can start getting these insights for yourself.

Step 1

Tap the “Add Categories” button at the bottom of the Factors section on the homepage.

Go into the “Social” category, first making sure the toggle on the left is green, meaning it will show up on the homepage.
Using the “Add Factor” box at the top, start adding the specific people you see on a somewhat regular basis. Or you can be more general, like “With Best Friend” or “With family”.

Step 2

Try to record your mood at least once each day.

Open the factors section and simply tap on the people you see each day. Again, the more times you do this the better your insights will be. You can also use the toggle at top of the section to enter your factors into more specific time periods for even more accurate statistics (this works especially well if you’re making two mood entries per day, once in the morning and once in the evening).

Step 3

After just 2-3 weeks of doing this, you will already be able to start seeing some interesting and possibly surprising patterns! Just think of the insights you’ll be able to get after doing this for a few months or even a year!
Go to the Insights page and Press the “Advanced Factor Insights” button at the bottom of the Mood graph.

Scroll down to see the Advanced Factor Report and navigate across until you get to the “Social” category.

(Note – Bearable Premium is required to see these insights)

This doesn’t just have to be for Mood either, maybe you’d like to know who gives you the biggest headache!?

Social Life vs Headaches:

Make sure you record your symptoms at least once a day (remember to press the “Mark none for remaining” button to ensure you get the most accurate insights, as we don’t assume you didn’t have a symptom if you don’t make any entry)

Once you’ve been entering your symptoms for a while alongside your Social Life factors, head to the insights page and tap “Headache” or any other symptom you’re interested in (under Symptoms Breakdown).

Just like with Mood, you’ll see a Factor Effect report for each Symptom – scroll across to “Social” and see the effect each person has on your headaches!

We’ll be adding many more tips like this to give you some inspiration as to what to track in Bearable and how to make the most out of your insights. Stay tuned!

November 25, 2020May 22, 2024

Bearable vs Daylio, which one should you choose?

I admit it, I’m obsessed with mood tracker apps. This became blatantly obvious during the pandemic as I had more time on my hands and too many emotions to juggle. Because I was spending basically all my time at home I could pay better attention to my habits, moods, or any symptoms that came up.

I’m someone who is very careful about my lifestyle choices. In the past, I have dealt with depression and I never want to feel as dark as I once did. I accept that due to my chemical makeup I need to be more cautious about my routine than other people. Letting go of certain habits and acquiring others has done wonders for my self-esteem and mental health. And that is the true value of getting to know yourself through a tracker.

So during lockdown, I went on a downloading binge to test out different apps that would fit my needs and design preferences. The shortlist came down to two choices: Bearable and Daylio. These two apps have similar customizable features, are nicely designed, and give you more extensive reports about your moods with a paid subscription. So what’s the difference between them?

Features

The most significant difference between Daylio and Bearable is the amount of data you can input into your account and its organization. On Daylio your mood scale is smaller than on Bearable, meaning you miss some of that nuance between feeling at a 4 instead of a 5. (Daylio lets you rate your mood from 1-5; Bearable from 1-10).

Bearable also invites you to quickly tap some descriptive words to justify your mood rating, whereas on Daylio you are taken immediately to choose your daily activities.

(Above screenshot taken from Bearable App)

(Above screenshots taken from Daylio)

On both apps, you can add activities or factors that contribute to your mood on any given day as well as the time period you are feeling a certain way. You might come to learn that perhaps you are not the morning person you once thought you were, or that your symptoms flare up at night.

Daylio however is more open-ended and do-it-yourself. You can add numerous activities to your profile and pair them with icons. You can also group them together, so for example, maybe you have a group for “exercise” and within it you can add yoga, running, dance, etc.

Bearable also allows you to input a handful of factors, however, the app already comes with its own taxonomy. So you can add or edit within pre-made categories such as Hobbies, Places, Meds, Food Diary, or even add your own custom category.

(Above screenshots taken from Bearable App)

(Above screenshots taken from Daylio)

Even though you can create all of these categories and labels on Daylio, it’s a huge help on Bearable to already have them set up in an organized system. This is especially true in the symptoms section. On Bearable you can select and edit symptoms, choose their intensity, and time frame.

Another notable difference is that you can sync Apple Health and Google Fit data to your profile on Bearable. This way you can track physiological things like steps, weight, heart rate and blood pressure, although I have not used this feature.

Daylio has an added gamification aspect to it. You get achievement badges for usage or as I received at the beginning of the pandemic, the “Emotional Roller Coaster” badge for hitting all moods in one week. I’m not particularly keen on their gamification tactic, but that badge did make me laugh.

Winner: Bearable – Both apps are very customisable, but I like how Bearable has premade sections specifically designed not only for mood, but also symptoms, sleep, diet, medication, health measurements, and more. This also allows you to go into a lot more detail if you choose to and it’s much easier to immediately get started, whereas Daylio can take a while to set up, given it’s do-it-yourself nature.

Insights

Both apps give you insights and for a premium subscription, you can unlock even more information on yourself. How valuable these insights are will completely depend on how often you’ve been taking note of your days. And it’s important to remember that some insights show a relationship of correlation, not necessarily causation. For example on days where you’re feeling low, you might be more prone to go for a walk. It doesn’t mean walks are causing you to feel bad. However, if you go all-in with your tracking you’d be able to check your mood before and after a walk making your data more precise.

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(Above screenshots taken from Bearable App)

(Above screenshots taken from Daylio)

Both apps present similar types of insights. Average mood within a specific time frame, what factors are associated with a mood, and several other more detailed mood charts.

However, because Bearable also focuses on symptoms in addition to mood (whereas Daylio is only a mood tracker), you also get insights based on your symptom score and can see which factors have the biggest effects on symptoms.

Winner: Bearable – both apps have great insights, but Daylio is limited to Mood-only stats, so can only be used for mental health. Bearable has both mood and symptoms insights and their public roadmap suggests that they also have sleep, medication and diet-specific insights sections coming in the future.

Bearable vs Daylio – Conclusion

Both are good choices if you are looking for mood and habit tracking apps. But if you are looking more closely at tracking symptoms, or you’d rather not go through the trouble of creating countless new activities or factors, then Bearable is the better option. It’s the app I’ll be sticking to and an added bonus of using Bearable is that the founders are super approachable. You can request features on their public roadmap or participate in an active subreddit of users trying to hack their own health by tracking.

Written by Mariana Suchodolski.

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October 18, 2020September 26, 2023

Colleen (Bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia)

When I was 17, I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Still, 13 years later, I often experience delusions, paranoia, and hallucinations. Sometimes, I get confused with words and thoughts. I also suffer from major mood swings—some manias so high that I can’t sleep for days, and some depressions so low that I feel suicidal. I won’t say that the app has fixed it all, but it has helped make life, well, bearable.

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My goal in seeking an app was to track my illness and my day-to-day. I wanted *one* app that would log my symptoms, moods, and daily life, a place that would allow me to take notes on what happened that day. My memory isn’t great, and if I didn’t know what happened, I didn’t know how I could work to make it better. What was this mood? What were my symptoms at the time? What triggered it? Did I have to take medication to treat it? I knew none of the answers, let alone be able to communicate them to my doctors. Therefore, the biggest benefit to Bearable is its ability to make the user conscious of their own habits, moods, and patterns. Some patterns were obvious—I knew that taking a walk and cuddling with my cat improved my mood and symptoms. However, some things were new to me – my mood greatly dipped on Mondays and was best in the middle of the week. Once I was able to predict this, I learned to compensate for it. For example, could I schedule a nature walk on Mondays to help lift my mood? All of these analytics sound complex, but the app is actually quite simple to use. This is a must for me, as I try as much as possible to use it when symptomatic. A handy notification reminds me when to log in, although I often find myself adding information as I go about my day. It has quickly become part of my daily routine. I check off “factors,” or things that happen in my life when they occur. These may be things like the weather, my activity level, or where I’ve been that day. I mark my mood, tag it with feelings such as “bored,” “happy,” or “upset,” and jot down a few notes. I check off when I’ve taken important medications, enter what I’ve eaten, and mark the severity of whatever symptoms I’m experiencing. Some of the useful features, such as sleep, are automatically entered from Apple Health.

Bearable has literally become a lifeline for me, and I imagine it would be for others, too. Not all patterns are obvious to someone with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and it’s amazing to have one organized place to learn about yourself. I can tell my doctors when I’m having a bad week and what important event might have triggered that. I can tell when my medications are working and how often I take them. I have insight into myself, and that would be invaluable for anyone with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or any illness at all. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Start to reclaim control over your well-being today! Download Bearable for free on Apple or Android. Bearable App – Mood and Symptoms Tracker for Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia.

October 14, 2020September 26, 2023

Michelle (BPD and Depression)

Hey there, my name is Michelle, I am 28 years old and I live with diagnosed borderline personality disorder and depression. My everyday life is usually a rollercoaster ride of emotions that takes me up and down without a break or warning; social interactions and interpersonal relationships are my kryptonite and I am in constant struggle with myself to allow closeness and love while another part of me fights against it. All that takes so much space and energy that important daily tasks are no longer feasible for me. Last year I lost my job and decided to go to a daycare clinic to learn to deal with my problems. I got some good strategies and used several apps that should help me to implement them in my daily life (e.g. by writing down situations and related feelings and reflecting on them, or writing a positive diary to direct thoughts more positively). Then I read about Bearable and was excited about the idea to have one single app where I can track everything important in one place and also have the possibility to customize everything individually.

Meanwhile I use almost all functions the app offers. I started out by writing down my thoughts and feelings about different situations via mood tracking and highlighting respective factors in order to recognize possible connections over time via the very detailed insights, the calendar function, or even the graph, where you can select individual factors/moods/symptoms and combine them as needed. Special situations I have highlighted in the “Significant Events” feature. The gratitude feature has helped me much better than expected to give my thoughts a push in the positive direction after half a year of “practice” and by tracking my symptoms and my sleep I have become aware that my legs are often very restless at night and now I clarify whether it could be RLS. I track my medication, have myself reminded to take it every morning, and recently started to use the food diary to keep an eye on my eating habits as I tend not to eat when I am feeling bad. Sometimes I can make the entries very promptly so that they are as “unaltered” as possible, but it’s not always time for that, so there are usually 5 – 10 minutes in the evening to catch up on it. And even if I’m in a bad mood, I can change the settings for the day so that everything is done with a few clicks. It has already become a nice little evening ritual for me. All in all, I think you could say that Bearable has helped me (and still does) to become more aware of my everyday life, listen more to what my body tells me, accept my feelings and fears, reflect on myself and situations – especially in a social context. It helps me to recognize important connections, become more optimistic, re-experience the feeling of self-efficacy – even more as I have the progress in front of my eyes. Above all, it helped to recognize my needs behind all of this and to strengthen strategies by which I no longer feel so overwhelmed by my feelings that often.

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I’m just more “with me” again and I haven’t felt this way for a long time, because I am actually used to being heavily influenced by other people in my life. It doesn’t matter if it’s the character I somehow adapted to and under which I could never really find my own personality, or the needs of the other person, which I always put above my own because the fear of loss drove me crazy. Even now I still have to struggle with it sometimes, but it is a long way and Bearable not only accompanies me but has also allowed me to get a better insight behind the scenes. I really sat down, thought about my needs and finally got to know them. By regularly reflecting on the app, they have even become friends somehow. I can only say that it has helped me tremendously to deal with myself. Especially with the borderline disease, mindfulness in everyday life has become so indispensable for me to be able to deal with my emotions in different situations and even triggers I can sometimes absorb quite well. Without the Bearable app as a great self-learning and documentation tool, which you have at your fingertips at all times for quick entries, I don’t think I could have gotten this far in such a short time. I can only recommend everyone to try it out! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Start to reclaim control over your well-being today! Download Bearable for free on Apple or Android. Bearable – Mood and Symptoms tracker for Depression and BPD

October 14, 2020September 26, 2023

Flarey (ADHD and Depression)

I was recently on the phone with my doctor and she asked me “So when did you last miss your meds?” And I blanked. I had NO idea. A day? A week? Could it have been a month?? It happened all the time! “When was your last cycle?” Uhh… definitely… this year? And then I remembered – oh wait I have an app for that!! Let me check! This year, I was diagnosed with ADHD, after a lifetime of thinking I was a scatterbrained weirdo who had depression. I’ve been a bit of a mess all my life – but this, this made sense! I could finally start to piece it back together! I could now say for sure, it was ADHD that gave me an appalling memory, zero concept of time, the inability to just get up and do something, no ability to make new habits… So, to trial the new meds for it, I was writing down symptoms and issues as I noticed them, in a note on my phone! It wasn’t ideal. but enough to figure out a good dosage. Until suddenly, for no reason – my meds weren’t working and I had to know why! Something I now know about ADHD is that we tend to obsess, which is how I ended up on an all-day research kick. I learnt that a woman’s hormonal cycle has a strong effect on ADHD medication!! My next step was obviously to track my cycle and match it up to check.

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So I started the hunt for an app. I wanted to track my cycle – but I didn’t want pink and flowers, I didn’t want reminders of my fertility (getting pregnant is not the only reason we might want to keep track!). I just wanted a calendar that showed the phases as I entered them! I was forgetting my meds constantly too… (I remember taking them… but was that just before…? Or was that yesterday…) So I figured, an app to remind me would be great! Even better if it does both those things! But every medication app in existence wanted me to go count how many pills I had so it could monitor my supply… and cycle apps didn’t care if I was on medication or not. I searched high and low for this magical app. I didn’t think I was asking for that much – just an app that could keep track of my meds, remind me to take them – that could put a little marker on some days of the month for me – maybe that I could look at a little graph of my weight fluctuations? Or that I could graph my mood maybe!

Enter Bearable. I had first found out about it on Reddit. It. Was. PERFECT. I was seriously considering learning to code to solve this problem until I found it!

Every day, three times a day, the little bear pops up to say hey, medicine time! I take my meds, open the app to mark them as taken – and hey, while I’m here, I might as well check in! How am I feeling? What’s going on with my day? Any symptoms? Bam! Less than 3 minutes, done and dusted and all in one place. First thing every morning I stick my temperature, weight, that sort of thing into my Health app – Bearable grabs it for me! My Watch keeps track of my heart rate (gotta make sure those stimulants aren’t pumping me too far up!) – Bearable grabs that too! Since using Bearable, I’ve been able to track patterns – I now know when I’ll need more ADHD meds because the hormones make them less effective. No more wondering why everything sucks three days in… I now know that I actually only need half the antidepressants I used to be on – woohoo!! ! With depression, a bad day feels like forever – now, I can look at the little calendar and see, it’s only been two days and this happened last time we had to go to the dentist too, it’ll pass! (I had never even considered tracking stuff like appointments, when I see family and friends, or factors that could affect my symptoms before! And I called myself a scientist??) This app is seriously my hero. If you have ADHD or depression, if you’re trialing medication and tracking side effects, or even if you just want a straight-forward way to track your moods during your cycle – this is the one. You have found it! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Start to reclaim control over your well-being today! Download Bearable for free on Apple or Android. Bearable App – Mood and Symptoms Tracker for ADHD and Depression.

October 13, 2020November 21, 2024

Our Pricing and Principles

Most of Bearable’s features can be used for free. However, we also have an optional subscription available for $34.99 per year or $6.99 per month. We frequently discount the annual subscription to $18.99. For people who cannot afford a subscription, we also have a sponsorship program, Bearable Heroes. If you have any questions about our pricing please get in touch at support@bearable.app

It’s important for me to be completely transparent about how we intend to make money at Bearable, as it is inextricably linked to our values and responsibilities as a company, not least due to the sensitive nature of information our users will be recording in our app.

This is something that has become even more relevant in recent years, after the scandal with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, who were selling and exploiting people’s data in a completely non-transparent and unethical way, which resulted in an understandable lack of trust in companies’ handling of personal data.

With this in mind, I want to emphasise that we will never sell our users’ data to anyone. Companies tend to resort to this out of desperation or greed.

So how do we intend to maintain the balance of making enough money whilst still retaining our integrity and ethical principles?

- Our main goal is to try and improve people’s lives by helping them to reclaim control over their health. This is paramount and will never be sacrificed for greed. In order to facilitate this main goal, we need to make at least enough to maintain the app and make incremental improvements based on our users’ feedback and requests.
- There needs to be a business-minded approach. We would be doing an injustice to our users and ourselves by going into this without any financial structure, as any benefits people might get from the app would be unsustainable if we ultimately ran out of money.
- We want to be affordable for all, whilst also providing a free version that allows users to still experience most of the app’s most useful features.

It’s been quite eye-opening going from app user to app provider. I was once someone who questioned the ethics of app providers (particularly health-related apps) in charging a subscription for their product. However, now that I’m on the other side, I’ve become much more understanding, having truly seen the number of resources required to create and, more importantly, maintain an app.

I personally now try to compare app subscription prices to the benefits of other products I spend money on. For instance, if I think I’ll derive more lasting benefits from using an app almost every day for a month than say, one or two similarly priced cups of coffee, then it’s clearly worth it for me.

When you use Bearable I want you to know that you can trust our motivations behind creating the app and it’s so vitally important to us that you feel safe and secure in knowing what’s happening with your data. Please take a good look at our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy to develop a further understanding of our processes and feel free to email me personally with any questions at james@bearable.app.

October 13, 2020January 23, 2023

The Origins of Bearable

Having suffered with my own chronic health conditions, I know all too well the frustration of coming out of an appointment with my doctor or therapist knowing that I hadn’t been able to give them a full and clear picture to allow them to make a better assessment of me.

This is unsurprisingly a very common frustration when you consider the brain fog and general difficulty thinking straight that comes along with many mental and physical health conditions.

This often leads to no diagnosis, a very tentative diagnosis, or at worst, a misdiagnosis. Speaking from personal experience this then sets off a wild goose chase as you go from consultant to consultant in search of answers, in addition to the hours spent on Dr. Google.

I was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, so I started tracking my mood, symptoms and other daily factors, in the hope that it would help me to understand, and thus feel more in control of, my health. On the bad days, let’s face it, no-one really wants to write much detail, if anything at all. So I created a simple one-click rating method for my mood and symptoms using a spreadsheet with the option to add a note if I felt up to it. This simple process not only helped me to spot some patterns and provide health professionals with more detail but also had a few unexpected benefits:

1. Therapeutic
Journaling made me feel like a weight was being removed, almost as if I was sharing the burden of emotions I had attached to the days’ issues and events.

2. Purpose
Making journaling a daily habit gave me some sense of purpose, especially on the days I was unable to do much else. I always felt like I had done one positive thing for the day.

3. Perspective
When you are having a bad day it’s easy to get caught in the moment worrying that you will always feel that way. Also, with the brain’s natural negativity bias you are more likely to remember the bad days. Journalling provided a sense of perspective. Now I look back at bad days, which at the time felt like an eternity, only to see they often actually lasted just a few hours, and soon realised that I had a lot more good days than I first thought.

Once I started to step back and think of those difficult moments simply as tiny coloured blobs of information amongst my hundreds of other journal entries, I found I was much less likely to get stuck in the moment and spiral into anxiety, as I was more confident that those moments would pass, as they had done before.

“It seemed like the more information I collected, the more knowledge I gained about my mind and body and thus, the more in control I started to feel.”

However, recording into spreadsheets and word documents every day was not very convenient and had several limitations. I looked for other apps, but many were narrowly focused on one particular health factor or condition, often feeling clinical and unsatisfying to use, or were slow and overcomplicated, without providing any useful insights.

Thus the idea for the Bearable app was born. I set out to create something people could enter into on the go, which recognised the importance of the connection between the mind and body. I wanted somewhere people could keep their mood and symptom entries in one place together with other health factors such as sleep, diet, exercise, medication, supplements, etc. It makes no sense to me to keep all this health data in separate apps when each can greatly impact one another.

The most important thing for me was to make the entry process effortless and satisfying enough for people to make it a daily habit, but with the option to go into more detail if they wanted. In that sense, I would have an app that could be as simple or as complex as the user wanted it to be.

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October 13, 2020November 6, 2020

Tracking Mental & Physical Health together

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The Mind-body connection

Once a theory met with much skepticism, an increase in scientific evidence has made sure there can be no denying the effects the mind has on the body. Our thoughts and feelings have been repeatedly shown to cause physiological and biochemical changes in our body.

For example, people suffering with depression are more likely to develop IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), heart disease, psoriasis and many more physical ailments.

It also works the other way, as people suffering with migraines, allergies and numerous inflammatory conditions (such as arthritis) are much more likely to develop depression. While it’s tempting to believe that these individuals are purely depressed due to their constant discomfort, theories are emerging that it’s the inflammation process itself that may actually be causing depression, something discussed at length by Edward Bullmore in his book “The Inflamed Mind”.

Yet, despite all of the evidence, the mind-body connection is still often overlooked, with many health professionals continuing to treat symptoms over the root cause.

In her book “Cure – A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body” Jo Marchant speaks to an NHS (National Health Service) doctor: “We are increasingly pushed to see more patients in less time.” It’s a trend he fears is contributing to a loss of empathy among medical professionals (and in turn to scary rates of depression and burnout)”

This was one of the motivators behind me creating the Bearable App. A lack of resources, as in the NHS, means that health professionals often don’t really have the time to really get to know their patients in order to get to the root cause of their issues.

While this remains unavoidable, being able to come prepared with a neat health diary, detailing not only physical symptoms, but also mental health markers such as mood, stress and anxiety levels, can really help health professionals make a more efficient and accurate assessment of each patient. When you consider the brain fog that often accompanies many health conditions, even remembering your symptoms alone can be difficult, let alone your mood fluctuations, especially when feeling pressured by the limited time you have to get everything across to your health professional.

For this reason we’ve tried to make our entry process as simple and accessible as possible, with only a few simple clicks per day needed to accumulate some really useful information, without even having to write anything unless you feel the need to go into more detail. Even other health data such as sleep, steps, weight, blood pressure and heart rate can be uploaded automatically from Apple Health/Google Fit to see alongside your mood and symptoms.

Let’s look at some other ways journaling can help nourish the mind-body connection:

1. Belief shifts biology – Overcome self-doubt

When someone is given a placebo that they believe to be a painkiller, their brain produces its own natural versions of morphine (known as endogenous opioids), which produce a very evident reduction in pain. Clearly then the pain is not ‘all in the mind’. As far as current research goes, the brain produces what it needs to produce to give us what we expect to happen. Expectation and belief shift biology.

How journaling can help: Regularly noting down your thoughts can help you to notice the stories you’re telling yourself that could be holding you back from making healthy changes. You can then challenge these negative beliefs. Examine your excuses and ask yourself whether they are indeed true, and why you’ve been so sure. Eventually, you can create a new story for yourself. You’ll start to build trust that you can keep up healthy habits, such as journaling and even using our gratitude feature to make sure you find at least one positive in the day.

2. Notice the physical effects of emotions – Feel more in control

Emotions are much more than just our ‘feelings’. Just as we can’t detach an emotion from its impact on facial muscles, we can’t separate feeling an emotion from a series of corresponding brain chemistry changes. Our emotions can alter blood flow, increase or decrease heart rate, and even increase or decrease the production of specific hormones. For example, when you feel stressed, stress hormones such as cortisol are released, which can impact digestion, and as a result produce symptoms such as indigestion.

How journaling can help: Keeping a record of your fluctuating moods helps bring your attention to how your physical symptoms might present themselves depending on whether you feel happy, loved, optimistic, stressed, upset or angry. Once you start to notice patterns you might start to feel more in control of your symptoms, comforted in the knowledge that you have experienced them before as a result of certain emotions and as they did then, will soon pass. As you continue to learn about the physical impact of your own feelings, good and bad, this will only serve to nourish your mind-body connection.

Most applications understandably want to keep things simple, therefore focusing solely on individual health components, which is why there are so many mood diaries, symptom trackers, fitness trackers and food diaries. But I believe it makes no sense to keep all of these things separate when you consider the effect each can have on one another. That’s why I created Bearable.

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Check out some of our User Stories and see what benefits Bearable has had for specific conditions.

Bearable – Mood and Symptoms Tracking App.