I never knew about this website;
About CureTogether
Imagine patients around the world coming together to share quantitative information on over 500 medical conditions. They talk about sensitive symptoms and compare which treatments work best for them. They track their health. New research discoveries are made based on the patient-contributed data. This is happening at CureTogether, and we believe it can have a massive global impact.
First I saw of it was this graphic popped up in one of my feeds as a side image to the main article.
This is what got my attention.
You can read a bit more about it on their website;
http://curetogether.com/blog/2011/05/03/23-surprisingly-effective-treatments-for-depression-one-year-later/
Given that it is all done by crowdsourcing is both interesting and a caution note worthy.
It would be people from all walks of life, the only one thing to be sure about is that they surf the web. And that’s the caution, you could be reading anything by anyone.
But, that said, my thought is that since that chart is built from pretty close to 5000 people, it would (should) sorta average out.
Here is my take away.
I blogged about how this year I want to focus on my physical health to improve my mental health.
Well, it would seem that according to a whole bunch of people I am on the right track with that approach.
Have not blogged about it yet, but I am also making an effort to do Yoga each morning, and yup, yoga is on the graph. (Middle left)…. Pretty happy to see it up there.
Of course, exercise is front and center, well, top right… which means it’s very effective and used by a lot of people to manage their depression.
We will do another blog in a few weeks how my quantified year is going (it’s only been around 6 weeks at this stage, I want to get at least 8 week under my belt before we even start to draw conclusions) in this regard.
I guess what I am trying to say is that I was really really encouraged to see that I am not totally off my rocker to think that by managing my physical health, I can impact (in a positive way) my mental health.
As for the ‘Adequate Sleep’ thing….. lets just say that is a work in progress and we will blog more about that specific topic once we have a little more data.
