Monitor Your Health Easily
Keep a record of all things that impact your mental health - positive and negative. Create a valuable record of the internal and external things that trigger your depression, the early warning signs and symptoms, and things that you can do to help you stay well.

Plan for Mental Health
Formulate a plan within the software for returning to health and remaining well. Make it a dynamic document - changing it as you learn more about your illness and which of your "stay well strategies" work. Email it to those who support you, so they can help you stay on track or be aware of when you need extra help.

Find Cause & Effect Relationships
Simple to follow reports and charts draw connections between the things impacting your health. Take the reports with you to appointments with your health professional, to help them provide you with a better, more tailored treatment.

Succeed
It takes an awful lot of work to recover from mental illness and continue in good health. Those who are most active and determined to pull things around tend to have the most success. Optimism is a great tool for being proactive and staying on top of your health.

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It was a mood diary, not unlike Optimism, that was a big key for me in understanding my illness. I made great gains by reading back through the diary periodically, and by looking at the data visually in Excel. The things that triggered depressive episodes became clearer, as did the things I could do to stay well. In time I gained control over my depression. This is the purpose of Optimism, to help people understand their own illness and to take control.
James Bishop, Optimism developer

Thanks again for work on this software. I've already recommend it to a few people! During my therapy my doctor gave me homework that involved tracking daily patterns of sleep and behavior and I still take notes and this app will help organize it all:)
Adam, 2 Oct 2008

Your program is great and the potential is even greater. I had an appointment with my Psychiatrist today and showed her the program reports and told her about the software, she loved it. Then I told her to tell all her patients to buy the program…
Ed, 3 Sep 2008

What a great program... I found it at the perfect time.  My psychiatrist has been on me to chart my moods daily, and I've found it hard to do.  I really think this will enable me to actually make it happen.  I can't wait to show it to him... I think he'll wind up recommending it to all of his patients! It's a great tool.
Mike, 24 Aug 2008

Congratulations on your computerised mood diary. I think that it is very well designed easy to use and well presented. I am recommending it to many of my patients to monitor their progress.
Keith, 10 Jul 2008

Your software is truly a blessing. I am bipolar and have always found it difficult to track my moods. Pen and paper just doesn't work sometimes, especially while going through an episode. This tool will greatly improve my ability to keep a journal of my ups-and-downs. Being that I'm a visual person the graphs will help me visualize my emotions in a way not possible before. I can't wait to share this with my psychiatrist and therapist, they are going to be thrilled with the idea and it will make a big difference in how we communicate...I'm glad you had the foresight to create Optimism, you truly understand what we go through. I look forward to the future updates. Keep up the good work.
Ed, 5 Jul 2008

I came across Optimism today and immediately thought it would be quite useful to recommend to some of our students whom we counsel...Thank you, and best wishes for this excellent app!
Lee, 1 Jul 2008

I cannot tell you how helpful Optimism has been. Thanks again.
Don, 28 Jun 2008

Thanks! I am really getting a lot of use out of the Optimism software...It helps me to carefully evaluate how I'm doing and I am going to take my stuff into my therapist in the coming weeks when I have more data collected. :) ...So, yah, it is a great little program! Thanks so much for making it available! I love it!
Kristin, 27 Jun 2008

Your dedication to this program is a blessing to more than you may ever know.  I hope that you take comfort in that knowledge!
Bob, 18 Jun 2008

We're helping teenagers and students, who are suffering from depressions, etc. A few weeks ago, I've tried you're absolutely fantastic program!!! I almost freaked out! You did a great job!!!
Pierre, 17 Jun 2008

This software is so very helpful. I have tried to use a journal to keep track of moods and triggers but it has not ever worked well. At my lowest points it has not worked at all. I think (hope!) that doing the charting and seeing what affects my moods and functioning may help keep me from being hospitalized again. Thank you for all the thought, work and skills that you put into this program...this is probably the most useful tool (after therapy and medication) for me as I work to get better.
Kathy, 12 Jun 2008

Great software. I've already recommended it to a couple of people.
Mark, 11 Jun 2008

I wish to thank you for this effort in computing and mental health benefit; it is the perfect companian for the persion who, like me, hates to record their daily mood, medications etc. It enables the person to record information easily, and someone in a confused state may find this extremely helpful with other assistance. You are still selling this at an extremely low price. Thanks for updates for life - a gift when the developer offers such a bargain, especially something like this that can only develop upwards. Thank you again :}
Robert, 5 Jun 2008

James, your little program, Optimism, is exactly what I needed to finally start keeping track of my mood swings, and of what I do that encourages the ups (and the downs). I love how simple it is to use. And I appreciate how dedicated you are to improving Optimism, personally responding to my feedback and incorporating many good ideas from your user-base. Wow! Nice work you've been up to... I love all the things that are on your list. This little program is growing quite nicely!
Rees, 24 Apr 2008

Thank you for creating this wonderful product!
Samira, 24 Mar 2008

Hi, I have been using optimism for one month now, and find it a fantastic program...Keep up the great work.
Michael, 19 Mar 2008

I'm very impressed with your product and have started using the reports with my therapists.
John, 17 Mar 2008