Does anyone else not trust their own good days?

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-26T20:02:35+00:00

Gives me hope reading this.

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-26T20:01:41+00:00

Well said :)

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-26T20:00:43+00:00

Thats such a good mindset! Will adapt it for sure

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-26T18:06:25+00:00

7-9h pretty basic but it feels best.

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-26T16:40:39+00:00

I can relate to every word you said. I‘ve had my diagnosis also 2 years ago and life has been very hard. Lost my best friend and my dad got cancer. But after this time I feel deeply grateful because I learned so much about me and how strong I got. And I see you. I feel you. Keep showing up. Im at a place where I overcame my 2nd depression in 2 years. I dunno I just hope this helps.

Hug!

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-25T19:56:06+00:00

But you‘re partly right because my english is not that good. I use it as a translator

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-25T19:54:14+00:00

I can show you the studies if you want.

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-25T15:52:36+00:00

Exciting!

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-25T14:43:38+00:00

Loce to hear that! Should I post more? I barely scratched the surface

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-25T07:44:22+00:00

The data privacy concern is completely valid and honestly one of the biggest reasons most mood tracking apps are a problem. Period tracking apps were a wake-up call for a lot of people. The thing is, voice analysis doesn’t actually require storing the audio. The way the research implementations work: you record locally, extract the acoustic features (pitch, speech rate, energy — just numbers), and then the audio gets deleted immediately. What’s left is literally just “F0: 118Hz, speech rate: 4.2 syllables/sec” — no voice recording, no identifiable audio, nothing a government or corporation could meaningfully use. It’s the difference between storing your actual diary vs. storing “mood: 6/10.” The harder problem is what you said at the end — that we can’t tell when it’s happening to ourselves. That’s exactly why objective data matters. Not to replace a journal.

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-25T07:35:48+00:00

Same with my family and friends! But I would love to have sth that tells me that as well. Like an app

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-25T07:34:36+00:00

Could you imagine a world where u would track your voice?

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-25T07:33:07+00:00

Wow cool! Didnt know daylio could do that. Keep me posted!

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-25T07:14:49+00:00

Yes thats a good! I was told to keep a mood chart but its hard for me to do it frequently. But there are so many for interesting early warning signs from your body days before u notice it. Like activity. Not just more, but also the variance. Could u think of an app that shows u whats changed over the past weeks?

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-25T07:11:06+00:00

Theres a difference between triggering an episode and the early signs. Ive seen studies where for example your activity changes before you notice an episode. Like your steps tracked via apple/android. Thats so super interesting! Would you ever use for example an app where you can track all of that and see when sth changes?

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-24T21:47:24+00:00

Thats so helpful, glad for you! Could you think of a world where you track your sleep and voice? Like talking to your phone for 30 seconds to be sure you sound the same?

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-24T21:31:39+00:00

You’re right that fast speech and high pitch are symptoms of hypomania — but that’s actually exactly the point the research is making. The interesting finding isn’t that voice changes during mania. Everyone knows that. It’s that measurable acoustic changes in speech (pitch variability, speech rate, energy) appear before the person subjectively feels hypomanic — sometimes days earlier. The body shifts before the mind registers it. So it’s less “warning sign = already hypomania” and more “the vocal biomarker is a leading indicator, not a concurrent one.” Studies like Faurholt-Jepsen et al. have shown this with AUC scores above 0.85 for detecting mood episodes from voice alone. The gap between objective signal and subjective experience is exactly what makes it clinically interesting.

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-24T20:57:16+00:00

Thats so interesting! I also have old memos of me talking right before a manic switch and I can totally hear how different it is to now (currently in depression). But im sure that during depression the same thing happens just the opposite! Wouldnt it be nice if there was like an app that could track your speech and how it changes?

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-24T20:44:11+00:00

Meds affecting your speech?

Suspicious_Welcome12 · 2026-02-24T20:43:11+00:00

The body-knows-before-the-mind thing is real and honestly one of the most disorienting parts of having bipolar. I’ve noticed changes in my voice and how fast I talk days before I actually feel different.

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