I’ve been using TagTime for over a month now on my Android phone as a way to become more conscious of my emotions (ie. my tags are all feeling words). Pros: It’s made me conscious that I use certain activities as a method of self-distraction and to fill time rather than because I’m actually enjoying them. I feel like my ability to quickly gauge how I’m feeling has improved a lot. It gives me a rough snapshot of how my overall mood varies, since I can flick through the timestamps and see which tags predominate. Cons: The app occasionally freezes. When the app pings me multiple times less than a minute apart, it’s annoying and jerks me out of whatever I was doing. It took me a few weeks to get over any and all pings jerking me out of whatever I was doing. Conclusion: I’m leaving it installed for now, but I’m not entirely sure that I’m getting a lot of benefit out of it at this point
I reviewed what has and hasn’t worked for me in the past wrt therapy, and have noticed a pattern which I’ll be bringing up at my next appointment.
Relatedly, succeeded in changing my emotions wrt some of my self-destructive impulses, with the result that those particular impulses have almost entirely disappeared
Failed to complete my second Coursera course within the space of a few months. I’m still trying to figure out what’s going on there. My current theory is that it’s a mixture of trivial inconveniences (my desktop doesn’t have internal speakers so I have to locate and plug in my earbuds before I listen to anything, the individual lectures are often long enough that I have to consciously make time for them) and general lack of motivation due to current depression.
I’ve been using TagTime for over a month now on my Android phone as a way to become more conscious of my emotions (ie. my tags are all feeling words). Pros: It’s made me conscious that I use certain activities as a method of self-distraction and to fill time rather than because I’m actually enjoying them. I feel like my ability to quickly gauge how I’m feeling has improved a lot. It gives me a rough snapshot of how my overall mood varies, since I can flick through the timestamps and see which tags predominate. Cons: The app occasionally freezes. When the app pings me multiple times less than a minute apart, it’s annoying and jerks me out of whatever I was doing. It took me a few weeks to get over any and all pings jerking me out of whatever I was doing. Conclusion: I’m leaving it installed for now, but I’m not entirely sure that I’m getting a lot of benefit out of it at this point
I reviewed what has and hasn’t worked for me in the past wrt therapy, and have noticed a pattern which I’ll be bringing up at my next appointment.
Relatedly, succeeded in changing my emotions wrt some of my self-destructive impulses, with the result that those particular impulses have almost entirely disappeared
Failed to complete my second Coursera course within the space of a few months. I’m still trying to figure out what’s going on there. My current theory is that it’s a mixture of trivial inconveniences (my desktop doesn’t have internal speakers so I have to locate and plug in my earbuds before I listen to anything, the individual lectures are often long enough that I have to consciously make time for them) and general lack of motivation due to current depression.