Medical Self Monitoring Devices help identify and
track mental disturbances
- Ordinality of Mental Disturbance
- Pragmatic use of MSMD in dealing Mental Disturbance
Ordinality of Mental Disturbance
“a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior”
World Health Organization Definition of Mental Disturbance
It is common for a person to experience mental disturbance of any form. Main reasons why people experience mental disturbance are due to risk factors such as stress, harmful lifestyle, adverse life experience, chronic health conditions, etc, that now became habitual. In 2019, more than 970 million global citizens were living in mental disturbance, which theoretically is 1 out of 8 people in the world.
The general knowledge that we as observers can receive from this factual information is that mental disturbance is close to a fever. There is no exact remedy that is capable of banish mental disturbance from our minds. Moreover, it will return nonetheless. Throughout the project, I wanted to call upon the ordinality of mental disturbance, that it is something all people share and suffer of, it is not a sign of vulnerability but an evidence of hardship, an uncommon value.
Pragmatic use of MSMD in dealing Mental Disturbance
Though I never really realized closely, I was one of the 1 out of 8 people in the world. I experienced mental disturbance since I was a child and it stills lasts today. This project was not only a learning opportunity for myself, but a field of expansion in self-understanding. During the project, I was able to use 4 infamous MSMDs available in Appstore. For 6-7 months I had used MSMD to test my theory, that self tracking is seldom wrong. It was surely a long journey looking back now. All applications had its pros and cons, sometimes confused me and sometimes made me jealous of its progress. It was tiring but I felt the positive change within myself. The result is humble. I prove as an individual experienced mental disturbance that self tracking is seldom wrong and am proud to stand here and introduce self tracking through MSMD as an alternative in dealing mental disturbances.