Step-by-step guide

Use practical treatment-support tools

Maintain your own medication records, turn intentions into a structured plan, work through a problem, and keep affirmations that matter to you.

These are record-keeping and planning toolsMind Your Mood does not prescribe treatment or decide medication changes. Follow advice from an appropriate healthcare professional.

Choose the tool you need

  1. In the left navigation, select Treatment.
  2. Open Medication, Structured plan, Problem solving or Affirmations.

Add and maintain a medication record

  1. Open Medication and select Add medication.
  2. Enter the medication name and total daily dose.
  3. Choose the interval and add the dose time or times.
  4. Check that the individual doses do not add up to more than the total daily dose.
  5. Select Add.
Medication remindersReminders are prompts only. They do not confirm that a dose was taken and are not a replacement for professional advice.

To update a record, select it, choose Edit, change the details and save. To remove it, select it, choose Remove, then confirm.

Create a structured plan item

  1. Open Structured plan and select Add item.
  2. Choose the category.
  3. Enter the subject and your reaction or type.
  4. Add the requested rating.
  5. Choose the intended action: Do more, Do less or Maintain.
  6. Save the item.

Select an existing row before using Edit or Remove. Editing changes the saved fields; removing asks for confirmation.

Work through a problem

  1. Define the problem. Add a clear description of the situation you want to address.
  2. Break it into ordered steps. Add each part of the problem and put the steps in a useful order.
  3. Generate ideas. Select a problem step and add possible ways forward without needing to choose immediately.
  4. Compare ideas. Add pros and cons to the relevant idea.
  5. Choose a solution and plan its steps. Add concrete actions in the order you intend to take them.
  6. Review the outcome. Return to the solution review and record what happened and what you learned.
Each confirmed addition is saved independentlyYou can return later and continue building the problem, ideas, pros and cons, solution steps or review.
Editing and removingSelect the problem, step, idea, pro/con or solution step you want to change. The relevant Edit and Remove actions apply only to that selected item.

Add an affirmation

  1. Open Affirmations.
  2. Select Add affirmation.
  3. Enter the words you want to keep available, then select Add.
  4. To change or remove one, select it first and use Edit or Remove.