130. The 1st Mood Tracking App for Bipolar Disorder: Steadyline with creator and founder Ravi Mishra130. The 1st Mood Tracking App for Bipolar Disorder: Steadyline with creator and founder Ravi Mishra
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Ravi Mishra shares his long, complex experience of living with bipolar disorder, from childhood pressure and hospitalisation to severe depression and grief. He talks about creating Steadyline, a bipolar mood-tracking app, and how structured data, self-awareness and patience can support more stable treatment and everyday life.
41:46•24 Aug 2026
Mapping Bipolar Highs and Lows with Steadyline and Ravi Mishra
Episode Overview
- Tracking moods, sleep and daily patterns can highlight early warning signs of episodes and support better management.
- Structured logs and app-generated reports help psychiatrists adjust treatment more accurately than vague recollection.
- Medication is a foundation, but discipline, self-awareness and family support are crucial additions.
- Gaps in logging are normal; even partial data is more helpful than none and people tend to return to tracking when they struggle.
- Depressive and manic states eventually shift, and remembering that change is certain can bring hope during dark periods.
“"The state always changes. If you're in depressive episode, it will always be stable again."”
Get ready to be moved by real-life accounts of living with bipolar disorder and trying to make sense of it day by day. This conversation brings together host Louise Barnett and guest Ravi Mishra, a software engineer from Bangalore who has lived with bipolar disorder for more than a decade and lost his mother, who also had bipolar, to related health issues.
You'll hear Ravi talk about growing up in a lower middle class Indian family, where academic pressure was intense and mental illness was poorly understood and often mocked. He shares how a celebrated college app he built spiralled into a manic episode, hospitalisation, and a shattered reputation, followed later by a severe depressive episode and job loss. Those painful experiences pushed him to start tracking sleep, moods, and daily patterns just to protect himself from future episodes.
That self-monitoring eventually became Steadyline, a mood-tracking app specifically built for bipolar disorder. Ravi explains how daily logs feed into AI-generated patterns, early warnings, and a clear report you can bring to your psychiatrist so you’re not trying to remember weeks of symptoms while stressed in the appointment. As Louise puts it, "it's not good enough just to say like, I'm feeling depressed.
Like they need to know I've been feeling depressed for 18 days," and Steadyline is designed to make that kind of detail easy. The chat stays grounded and honest: Ravi admits he still struggles with depression, emotional regulation, and relationships, even while building tools for others. He talks about discipline, missing log days, and coming back to tracking when things start to feel shaky again.
One of his most reassuring messages is simple: "the state always changes" and every depressive storm eventually passes. If you’re living with bipolar disorder or supporting someone who is, this episode offers both practical ideas and a sense that you’re far from alone in the mess. What might change for you if your moods and triggers were finally mapped out instead of living only in your head?
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