From the London QS Show&Tell group: Jon Cousins talks about the development of Moodscope, a social site where users can track their mood and share their stats with friends. He battled depression secretly for 30 years, and was inspired to invent his own mood-tracking system after a potential bipolar disorder diagnosis. Watch the video below to see the incredible, applause-generating difference in Jon’s mood when he started sharing his data with his friends.
Jon Cousins – Moodscope from Kiel Gilleade on Vimeo.
Beautiful story. I wonder how this will change and enhance specific bits of suffering within humanity. This seems to get at the core helping catalyst without the dogma associated within self-help groups. Great find.
Thank you so much for sharing your story, Jon. As someone who has struggled with depression for over a decade (and hidden it fairly well until recently), I very much relate to your experience. I just signed up for Moodscope – looking forward to what I will learn from using it!
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Jscott and Alexandra, thank you for your kind words. It’s a pleasure to share the story and I now know that it wasn’t just me. Mood tracking and sharing really seems to work. There’s lots we want to do with Moodscope, but already we’re building up a lot of knowledge about what seems to work (and what doesn’t) in this area. Alexandra, looks like we both hid our low mood from others. I guess it’s a necessity sometimes, but I’m now seeing how much more healthy it can be to let others in. Good luck with your Moodscope experiment!
hi i joined moodscope on24th march and after 20yrs or more of psycological mishaps in diagnosis i found this site. my only problem is my sister refused to be my online buddie,when i informed her that i had to fish her response out of my junk section where microsoft had put it
how do i get her back on board ive been locked behind my curtains for 5months and i want her onboard…. i love the site just what i need to open them curtains ta paul
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Thanks for sharing Jon – Amazing story! Seeing the difference in mental state on the graph once you shared the data with friends is incredible! Loved the reaction by the audience
Have signed up solely based on this video and taken the test / connected with friends.
Looking forward to downloading a graph as epic as yours, one day in the future!
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