Your Personalized Data Storyteller Between You and Your Clinician
By Clara Guo, MD MBA
Your Data Advocate – The Storyteller for Your Clinician
Have you ever felt like:
You forgot to tell your clinician something that could have been important for your care?
You were ashamed or embarrassed to share something with your clinician?
You ran out of time and your appointment ended too early?
You had trouble answering your clinician’s questions and organizing your thoughts?
Mental health treatment can be overwhelming and stressful, especially if you feel like you can’t control what’s going on in your life.
You’re not alone. Most people have trouble communicating with their mental health clinician. It’s really hard to explain how you’re feeling in a way that’s clear, comprehensive, and actionable for clinicians. It’s even harder to understand and capture your subtle shifts in mood, stress, or sleep and then relate that to how you’re feeling. After all, that level of insight is often what mental health treatment is for.
It sucks that much of the burden is on the patient to communicate effectively. A good clinician reads between the lines, guides the conversation, and asks the right questions to dictate care. But it can be tough, especially when there’s a lot going on in a patient’s life and time is limited. More often than not, clinicians only get a partial picture of what a patient is actually going through an isolated snapshot in time. That makes diagnosis and treatment even harder.
That’s where Lucid comes in. It bridges this Data Gap by acting as your Data Storyteller. It takes all the data you’ve been tracking and sharing mood, sleep, stress levels, physical activity, heart rate and presents it in a way that’s meaningful, organized, and easy to understand. We take your experiences and transform it into a narrative that both you and your clinician can use to guide your treatment.
Seeing your own data helps you better communicate how you’re feeling. It also provides clinicians with valuable context that would otherwise be hard to capture. For instance, it might show how certain stressors trigger spikes in anxiety, or how you’ve actually been feeling down nearly every single day for the past month. Clinicians can act on this. They can make better decisions. And, because you know what matters too, you can be the leader in your own care. You can help guide your treatment by working with your clinician and feel more in control.
Lucid alleviates the burden of you having to remember everything when you see your clinician. It helps you figure out what’s important to share. It helps your clinician make more informed treatment decisions that’s adaptive and personalized. Importantly, it centers you in your own care journey.
Take Charge with the Lucid Care App
And now, with the recent launch of the Lucid Care app, it’s easier than ever to take charge of your mental health. The app is free to download and gives you AI-powered insights and tools to track and share your progress. Whether you’re working with a clinician or reflecting on your own, Lucid Care centers you in your care journey, helping you feel more in control and confident in your treatment.
