Mac Users Have Another Reason to Feel Great!

Sydney-based company Crackatonic Projects has developed a health planning software application for people with depression, helping them to take a motivated, active approach to managing their mental health. Another great software for Mac!

So, if you wonder what can Mac users achieve with this software, the simple answer is - a lot!

You can monitor your health easily by keeping a record of all things that impact your mental health (triggers, symptoms, and useful stay-well strategies). Then, you can visually identify cause and effect relationships between those factors that positively and negatively affect your mental health. But more importantly you can find strategies to stay healthy by quickly discovering what works and what doesn’t. This software will also help you formulate a “Stay Well Plan,” with Charts and Reports that can be emailed in PDF format.

Once you start monitoring the patterns in your lifestyle, you will begin to identify many internal and external facts that affect your health. Optimism software will track your mood, exercise, sleep, and other factors that are potential triggers, symptoms, or stay-well activities.

Each individual has a different combination of factors that trigger his or her depression. Optimism software for Mac helps users to take a pro-active approach to their mental health by actively learning about their depression and identifying its patterns at their individual level.

Optimism software presents these relationships visually by giving a compelling insight into the problem and uncovering the various cause and effect relationships. The motivation for creating this software is “something that everyone with depression can benefit from.”

According to the company:

The program is basically an advanced health and mood diary. It helps you discover your depression triggers, the symptoms that they produce, and based on this knowledge, effective strategies for staying mentally well. Its great strengths are its charts and report, which together give you a visual ‘birds-eye view’ for identifying the important cause and effect relationships. Many people discover, when looking back over their health records, that their depressive episodes have been quite predictable.

Optimism software is available in Mac and in Windows versions, with a full-featured, 7-day trial. A single user license is $19.95 USD. Registered customers receive all subsequent releases free of charge.

System Requirements:
Mac OS X Universal Build, version 10.2 or later.