Testimonials

Valérie B.

Thousand thanks! What a good investment for my health! ;-) I print my graphics and my daily diary each time I have to meet my doctor. Very helpful to discuss and explain what happened.

I have a type 1 bipolar disorder and these tools really help me to anticipate potential crisis and to prevent from hospitalization.

Tina D.

These tools are really a great idea! They help me to better discuss with all the physicians that take care of me. Before, I used to forget some things but now it allows me to save information to tell them what happened to me between two consultations.

Stéphane F.

These tools help me to better monitor my health and parameters on a daily basis :-)  I learn to be attentive to changing signs and to manage potential crisis. 

It really helps me to get stabilized with my bipolar disorder and mostly to keep stabilization.

Ok it's not free but it's worth compared with the support it gives to me.

Marie Christine S.

Made by patients themselves! That’s why the interface is so "patient-friendly" and it's very secure. Anyway, it is now an habit for me to be active and implicated in my mood monitoring every evening. It's also very important for me to have a place to write and express what I feel because of my bipolar disorder.

Laura P.

No more sheets of paper that is lost or ugly spreadsheets!  Finally, a highly interactive and graphical tool that allows me to store my data in an accessible and secure way! I especially love  the daily diary where I can express my emotions.

Pr Bernard LACHAUX, Psychiatrist

Your tools are functional, beautiful and relevant. They provide a real help to patients to get stabilized. They also help physicians by improving the quality of collected information. After all, it facilitates the communication between patients and doctors.

Dr Christian GAY, Psychiatrist

These tools are attractive and easy to use. They bring a synthetic information and allow a more global and objective vision of patient’s life in the time.

By becoming more involved in its health, the patient controls better and better its crisis.

Pr Jean-Albert MEYNARD, Psychiatrist

Your e-healthcare tools can really help patient to better understand and manage their mood swings. That way, it participates to the patients’ education.

But it also helps the physician to have more information to understand the patient's condition and this allows a better adjustment of the treatment.

«It suddenly clicked in my head ! » : by Frédéric

In a television serie, I heard someone who said that he suffered from bipolar disorders at a session of group therapy. It suddenly clicked in my head !

I grabbed the dictionary, opened the internet connection, and finally, after visiting several sites, I discovered the Mood Institute website. I opened a topic, I think it was on professional retraining, I read the heading and the comments. I recognized myself in the descriptions of mood disorders. I left a comment in a few lines (I put more than one hour to write ...) that finally had nothing to do in here but it was too late, the “click” was made ... then I disconnected my computer.

The same evening I had a very cordial mail by the founder, Laurent COUSSIRAT, which made me felt better. Since then, I decided to take myself into control and consult specialist in mood disorders. I know that this is essential to take my place in the society to recover equilibrium and find my place which should be probably somewhere. I already have visited a large part of the website and I am now reassured that I am not alone and that so much listening, help and support could be proposed to me.

I would like to thank Laurent COUSSIRAT again for his humanity, his involvement and assistance in my all necessary.

"I found your website ... and I cried while I was reading it ..." by DM

I found your website - after many days (months? Years?) of research ... and I cried while I was reading it ... I cried because I have finally glimpsed a semblance of hope ... Torn by a disease that prevents me from finding an anchor on Earth, I skimmed off Internet in research of a solution, a place where my numerous (judging by what I am told ...) talents which can find an application that allows me to survive.

And your website is the first one where I found such researched hope: to live with my work in staying what I am. Because that’s the first website that deals with the individual affected by "a strange illness", and considers him like a PERSON. Full member of the society, bearing my own ressources, I’m an economic player ...

I like your website because it clearly announces its goals: it proposes a program of professionnal training. In the heart of its objectives, it proposes to develop appropriate tools (can we imagine a mood stabilization without a socioprofessional stabilization?).

It is also one of the few sites that recognizes and shows to advantage the artistic talent as a vector of rehabilitation.

It is also the first site which already establishes - already by its name! - An open-mindedness, by refusing to classify persons by their diagnosis. By the characteristic of "strange pains" (or simply scarce pains) it is often precisely the difficulty to establish one diagnosis ... Then, the "unidentified individual" are not only condamned to be wandered to search their name but also to search a “tribe” which would be theirs.

But where is "unidentified individuals" tribe?

Without any doubt here : where you can call up until 23h, the time when usually people sleep, but where creativity is just awaking ... Here, where you can find a real listening and understanding, without judgement. And the most important thing (at the risk of repeating myself!) where we can find a perspective.

So let’s this project live and be developped ! And let’s bring our stone to the building and support this initiative.

« My cyclothymia" Christian tells us ...

"It's been about ten years I have had depression chronically, punctuated by periods where I feel almost normal.

Yet there was never any major event that would explain the intensity of the emotional states I was in. Until now, I didn’t have the instruction manual to manage my life for the good reason that my emotions were always more important than everything else.

I found so increased energy and pleasure during these moments of "happiness" and states of euphoria as much as I missed energy during my "down", when I felt depressed. My social and professional life have had the form of a discontinuous line, hard to concentrate my efforts to complete a project, follow through an activity or maintain a friendship or a romantic relationship. In the last ten years, I have lived in four different places , moved three times in three years in the same city. I told myself that by changing my environment and my acquaintances, I would feel better, that the cause of my problems was external. Only it was always myself that I moved along with my luggage.

It was necessary that my suicidal ideation become recurrent to the point where I no longer thought of the people whom I loved, for me to understand that my sessions of classic psychotherapy provided me only with passive listening, without really being able to translate

this into action and manage my life. Even if they allowed me to better understand certain of my behaviors, they did not explain my profound despair. I did not refuse life but just the life that I was living : being in a moving elevator, which stopped on the ground floor from time to time, without being able to make it goes up an down, or worse, on a series of roller coasters without being able to get off.

There are about six months, I saw an interview about mood disorders. I recognize myself in the descriptions of mood disorders and it made me feel better to put a name on my illness: bipolar cyclothymic. I decided then to consult a psychiatrist for looking after myself.

Since then, I have been taking medication in which the doses have been adjusted little by little until the symptoms of depression have faded away considerably. I felt the effects of the medications after several weeks. I got up in the morning without damning the day to come, I was able to concentrate about three to four hours on my work (before more than one hour would have been an exploit) and, most importantly, I could feel that impulse that allows you to go forwards and even better, to approach others.

I have realized that being informed and taking things in hands was a big step to begin to feel better and heal in the best conditions. I will never be cured of my bipolarity, for the only reason that for me it is not an illness, but more my temperament, as I like to say. I am learning to manage it better and better with the medications and advice.

I hope that these few lines will help you…. »

Christian H.