What your mental wellness score means
Your current mental wellness score serves as a comprehensive indicator of your overall wellbeing. Mental wellness helps us think, feel, connect and function; it is an active process that helps us to build resilience, grow and flourish. The mental wellness score has many benefits and interpretations, whether it be for a prompt of reflection, validation of prior feelings or motivation. We encourage you to keep track of your wellness score and to use it as a tool to understand and manage your overall wellbeing. You can track your wellness score using the score overview feature, this will help you better understand and manage your overall wellbeing.
How is your mental wellness score calculated
thymia’s mental wellness score is a summary of your current levels of stress, burnout and fatigue. The score is compared with people of the same age, birth sex, language and accent. This means that when you receive your score, you will know if it is higher, lower or about the same as your peers.
The AI model is trained on a diverse and extensive dataset, comprising hundreds of thousands of minutes of speech recordings from a wide array of individuals. This dataset is continuously evolving, with a focus on inclusivity and balance, representing a broad spectrum of ages, genders, backgrounds and accents.
The voice calibration feature learns from your unique voice during previous checks to provide a more personalised mental wellness score. Voice calibration unlocks after completing at least 5 wellness checks within two weeks. This ongoing learning process enables the AI to adapt and offer a more accurate and individualised wellness score.
Stress:
Stress is a physical reaction to mental or physical challenges that primes your body to take action: also known as the fight, flight, or freeze response. While some stress can be the nudge you need to overcome immediate obstacles, dealing with stress for a long time can be detrimental to your mental health - leading to changes in mood as well as higher susceptibility to common viruses and even digestive issues (Cohen et al., 2012; Russell & Lightman., 2019).
A few ways to reduce stress include:
Time management strategies.
Reframe negative thought patterns.
Build a supportive network.
Identify internal stress triggers.
Burnout:
Burnout is a state of physical and emotional exhaustion, be it from work or personal life pressures. Other forms of burnout can stem from job worries, being out of work, financial worries, struggling relationships, responsibilities at home and more.
A few ways to reduce burnout include:
Establish clear boundaries in all aspects of life.
Address perfectionist thinking patterns.
Make time for relaxation and enjoyable activities.
Set realistic, achievable goals (SMART goals).
Fatigue:
Fatigue is a state of tiredness which can be influenced by both sleep quality and lifestyle habits. It can vary from feeling extremely awake and alert to experiencing extreme tiredness that makes it difficult to focus. Making sure you sleep well and choosing healthy lifestyle habits are key to keeping fatigue in check.
A few ways to reduce fatigue include:
Practise good sleep hygiene.
Listen to an audiobook, podcast or music before bed.
Reduce exposure to bright lights in the evening.
Practise bedtime meditation.
Final note
thymia's wellness checks will become your trusted guide through your mental health journey, showing you how stress, burnout and fatigue can impact your overall mental wellbeing. By making mental health visible, we aim to empower you with scientifically-backed insights, enabling you to make well-informed decisions for your health and happiness.
By maintaining consistent wellness checks, and completing at least five within two weeks, thymia’s AI will get to know you better, producing more accurate and personalised results that reflect your unique mental wellness profile. Use these insights to track and manage your mental wellbeing effectively.
If you are at all concerned about your mental health and wellbeing or anything you see in thymia’s mental wellness report we recommend you contact your family doctor or a mental health professional.
Within the UK and EU, you can also call the Samaritans by dialling 116 123.