Life Saver – Clarity - CBT Thought Diary Review

This is the first review I’m ever writing for any app because writing reviews usually annoys me. However, I just had to for this one because it is absolutely amazing. It helps not only organize my thoughts and moods but also offers quick assessments of cognitive behavioral therapy. I love being able to jot down my thoughts and quickly go through a list of whether I’m self blaming, labeling, minimizing the positive or catastrophizing, rather than sitting for hours trapped in my negative thought spirals with no sense of structure or way of snapping back to reality. Review : The only reason why I gave this app 4 stars is because I wish it offered more choices for “emotions.” For example : “lonely” or “heavy” aren’t options when you choose a sad face emoji to describe your current state. Also, the emotions for bad/worst and sad are the exact same which is unrealistic. Even the neutral face is associated with only negative words. Basic words like “confused” doesn’t exist. This is extremely crucial because the people who use this app are the type who probably have trouble identifying their emotions and thoughts so the lack of emotional range may further alienate or misidentify what’s going on inside of them. It makes me feel more repressed not being able to express myself honestly, truly, and accurately because the words I’m feeling don’t exist as options on the app. It might make some people ignore subconscious emotions going on deeper inside of them because they weren’t even able to see it as an option on the list of available emotions to identify with. It makes me feel limited and even more frustrated. Suggestion : Please add more emotional range as it would really enhance your app and expand the quality of emotional life for the people using this app. If it is a hassle for the developers to include such a wide range, please include the ability/feature for users to add their own emotions and categorize them. Emotions have such an infinite range and are quite complex that I don’t expect the developers to include thousands or even hundreds of them but it would be extremely helpful to allow us to add our own emotions that might be missing from your list and I get the sense that it will make even more people want to use your already helpful and amazing app. Thank you so much for developing this app. It is absolutely great! If you take my suggestions into consideration, it would be a 7-10 star app.
Review by good luck karma on Clarity - CBT Thought Diary.