Clinical primers
The clinical side: scales, meds, and getting the most out of a visit.
What clinical mood scales mean (and why a compact anchor beats 1–10)
A plain-language explainer on the clinical mood scales — HAM-D, YMRS, ASRM, GAD-7 — and why a compact ordinal anchor is more honest than a 1–10 slider.
3 minLithium and weight: how to track the side effect honestly
Weight gain is a documented lithium side effect. Here is how to track it next to your mood data without making it the whole story.
3 minHow to track medication adherence without relying on memory
Self-reported adherence is famously unreliable. Here are tactics for tracking psychiatric meds in a way that gives you and your clinician useful data.
3 minHow to prepare for a psychiatry appointment with your data
Fifteen minutes goes fast. Here is a simple way to walk into your next psychiatry visit with mood, sleep, and meds data your clinician can read at a glance.
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