Jardin Mental

A complete mental health diary, for me and to accompany my therapy

Mental Garden is a customizable diary that allows you to enter all the useful information to assess your state of mental health, follow its evolution, and understand what influences it. You can use it on your own to get to know yourself better, but it is above all a tool to share with the healthcare professional following you, to optimize your care by supporting you in improving your mental health and in the management of your disorder or psychic suffering.

Thanks to a daily questionnaire which asks you to evaluate personalized indicators of your mental health (symptoms, feelings, behavior or thoughts), to note the highlights of your day, or to enter your treatment intake, you will not forget no more important information to relate during consultations with the actors of your psychic care pathway (psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist, nurse, peer-helper, specialized educator, etc.).

Mental Garden is completely free, anonymous, and no personal information is required to use it. No one can access the data you enter in the application, they are only stored on your phone (and are therefore not saved elsewhere). You decide whether you want to show them to a healthcare professional during your consultation, or send them directly by email via the application.

Jardin Mental is continuously developed with health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and peer helpers) as well as with users of the application. In order to improve our service as closely as possible to your expectations, do not hesitate to send us your suggestions to [email protected] or via the "Contribute to the application" button that you will find in the application. Leave us your contact details to be contacted by our team, in order to fully share your user experience.

In "My entries": you will find your daily questionnaire where you can follow your indicators such as "anxiety, anguish, morale, mood, stress, melancholy, sadness, motivation, quality of sleep, libido, insomnia" or behaviors. You can also enter your treatment intake, such as antidepressants, by choosing from the pre-filled list or by customizing it if it is not a drug commonly prescribed by a doctor.

Thanks to the personal notes, fill in all the events and all the thoughts of your day. In addition to being a personal diary, it can help me understand if a particular event influences the fact that I am not well. If this is not the case, regularly filling in the personal notes will allow you to identify other causes, sometimes more discreet, which can nevertheless have a strong influence on your well-being (low morale, anxiety attack, attack of panic).

JardinMental also offers an exercise (Beck's columns), frequently used in behavioral and cognitive therapy (CBT). This exercise allows you to analyze your automatic thoughts (or dysfunctional thoughts), analyzing their cause and their consequences, thus allowing a restructuring of thought. We recommend that you discuss this exercise during a session with your therapist.

Jardin Mental is an accompaniment in your recovery. On the other hand, it cannot replace a consultation, does not allow a medical diagnosis to be made (mood disorders, depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, eating disorder, anorexia, bulimia, paranoid disorder, etc.) or to contact a healthcare professional. In the event of a psychiatric emergency (in particular in the event of suicidal thoughts), you can contact the emergencies or the assistance numbers offered in the application, section “Talk to someone” in the menu.