Optimism for Mental Health 2.9.5

Optimism for Mental Health 2.9.5 is a professional and simple to use program to help you understand your mental health. It is used for recovering from depression and other illnesses, for maintaining good health, and as a self-help tool.

Optimism prompts you to keep a detailed record of all things that affect your state of mind. By monitoring patterns in your life you can identify negative influences that you need to avoid, early warning signs that your health is deteriorating, and the inputs and activities that benefit you most. Charts and reports highlight cause and effect relationships that you might normally miss.

All output can be printed or saved to PDF, and emailed to a health professional prior to appointments if appropriate.

Major Features:

1. All of the fields for triggers, stay well strategies and early warning signs of a decline in health can be customized.
2. A rating can be applied to each field, so that the strength of something experienced can be quantified.
3. Naturally the software can be customized with the input of a treating professional so that items specific to that person’s treatment are monitored.
4. The reports and charts in the software can be printed or saved as pdf files, and sent to the treating professional.
5. An accurate historical record of a client's mood and health can significantly improve the value of time spent in consultation.
6. If it is emailed in advance the professional can prepare more fully and benefit from a more productive consultation.
7. Limits exaggeration or problems with recall.
8. Very easy for a client to use. After it has been customized it should take no more than a couple of minutes a day to keep current.
9. Provides visual feedback so that causal links between triggers, staying-well strategies and early warning signs of a deterioration can be easily found.
10. A valuable tool that provides a closer link between the client and their health professional.

Enhancements: Added Help sections for the Preferences pane and File menu functions. The serial validation process has been improved for new users,  the interface of the Clear Data Range window has been improved