This is a very simple app that lets you create a list of unhelpful “automatic thoughts” that you might have. You can add an entry to the thought diary, type in the thought, label the cognitive distortion, and then input a rational response. You can then only really edit the entry, delete it, or view a colourful summary in green and yellow.
The user interaction with this app is a pretty poor, partly as you have to do more than one thing on the edit screen, and the navigation involves retracing your steps from dead-ends. I find the font size tiny also.
There are features that you might miss unless you explore a bit, for example, hidden under the keyboard at the bottom of the thought entry page, there is a ‘list of distortions’ reference page (lifted, it seems, from wikipedia’s cognitive distortion page).
Cognitive distortions:
- All or nothing thinking
- Overgeneralisation
- Mental filter
- Disqualifying the positive
- Jumping to conclusions
- Magnification and minimisation
- Emotional reasoning
- Should statements
- Labeling and mislabelling
- Personalisation
There is also reference made to the app being derived from David Burns’ book “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”
In general, I think this app could be used as a thought record or thought diary, but there are much better apps out there that do the same thing and are easier to use and nicer to interact with.
TripleColumn is a free app that can be found here.