We’ve seen all kinds of software over the years, but software that wants to replace Prozac? Optimism software, designed for both Mac and PC is a unique app that charts your lifestyle and helps you pinpoint causes for your bouts of depression so that you can eliminate and reduce those causes. “The program is an advanced health and mood diary. It helps you discover the things that trigger your depressive episodes, the symptoms that they produce, and based on this knowledge, effective strategies for staying mentally well. Its great strengths are its charts and report, which together give you a visual “birds-eye view” for identifying the important cause and effect relationships. Many people discover, when looking back over their health records, that their depressive episodes have been quite predictable.” Anyway, the reviews for this app are pretty good and for $19.95 it can’t hurt to try it? Depression is no joke, and as skeptical as we are about the idea of using software to fight depression – it cant be that crazy an idea, after all – computers do make US happy.