Self-tracking in Mental Health Apps

In this chapter, we discuss the role of self-tracking in the everyday use of MHapps. Self-tracking is a prominent feature of many MHapps and relates to the multiple and varied ways of giving a number to psychological health and then tracking changes to this data, in the context of the app. This chapter explores how users of MHapps experience the flow of affective atmospheresatmospheresaffective atmospheres in the practices of documenting and tracking their actions. The analysis also explores the encounters with other (non-human) bodies,non-human bodies such as algorithmsalgorithms, that are present at the site of self-tracking. This focuses on the ways the users are able to creatively engage with this spatialatmospheresspatial and temporal aspects of affective atmospheres in MHapps for possible future action and movement.