(May 13, 2017 at 6:31 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(May 12, 2017 at 7:17 pm)emjay Wrote: You can get apps for rating your mood Hammy, if you want to do it as a sort of diary thing. You just put in emojis depending on your mood and they do graphs and all that sort of thing. My sister uses something like it, don't know what the name is though I'm afraid... but I think there's plenty of them in Google Play.
Isn't it better to simply observe your feelings as they happen, do your own analysis, and hopefully get to know yourself better?
Of course this risks falling afoul subjectivity, but isn't detachment at least possible?
Mindfulness you mean?
I'm always in favour of that but I think you misunderstand me... in writing this post I wasn't recommending anything to Hammy in the sense of 'this is a good thing to do'... but rather just suggesting - given that he was talking about wanting to rate his moods - tools that were available to that end. I don't use this sort of app... my sister does, and I basically have no interest in using such an app... so I wasn't making any judgment about it's psychological usefulness, just that it might be the sort of thing Hammy was looking for, given what he had already said.
