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Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

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Post by vsreed »

christalwang wrote: post #42
Apreche wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say you haven't found a way to articulate it. You should articulate it exactly the way you do in this comment. You are not providing licensed medical services. Just come out and say it, since it's true. Yes, saying that will cause people to distrust you, and well it should. You are right about there being a shortage, but there is no substitute for a real doctor. That said, being upfront about it instead of trying…

Shimmer is NOT clinical and we do NOT provide licensed medical services. We are most definitely not trying to substitute a real doctor. Full stop. We hope that is clear in all of our communications and website, and do NOT try to obscure that. However, we do a lot of work to work with the right experts (which include clinicians, psychiatrists, etc.) to ensure what we do it safe, follows best practice, is science-backe…

Just updated the language in our FAQ for this!

Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

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Post by libraryatnight »

hartator wrote: post #23

Funny this is one of the most distracting blog posts I've read in a bit. Emojis everywhere, boxes, Intercom, sign up to the newsletter, animations, confusing wordings, multiple colors for the text. I doubt the author has a grasping of ADHD.

This is sort of the thing. Everyone I meet with ADHD has some similarities, an a lot of nuanced differences and lots of their own little tricks and methods for dealing with it. Many of them have therapists they believe have had a positive effect on them. Many have medications that they believe have a positive effect. That may or may not be true depending. Whatever seems to be working is whatever they're evangelizing and while I'm glad that mental health is becoming more accepted and discussed, I wish treatments/rituals/coachings/medications were left up to the patient and whomever they chose for professional care

Therapy helped for me until it didn't and then medication did and still does. That's just me. My nephew struggles with medications. It's so easy just to get an initial reaction with mental health issues, and then want to evangelize whatever stimulated that reaction, but this stuff is nuanced. There's all kinds of variables commonly shared and some not so common.

Anyway, be cautious of telling people what they grasp with personal health issues, they likely just don't grasp your particular flavor. But with regard to this website, I'd be cautious in general.

It reeks of excited evangelizing done by someone who's way of interacting with the world is business and computers.

Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

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Post by zeroq »

alfanick wrote: post #7

"All of our Shimmer ADHD Coaches are licensed or certified mental health professionals or have extensive experience with ADHD & undergo our Shimmer Coach Training program developed alongside our clinical advisors Dr. Amin Azzam (MD, MA), Dr. Anil Chacko (PhD), and our Head ADHD Coaching Psychologist Xenia Angevin." What is "undergo our Shimmer Coach Training program developed alongside our clinical advisors Dr. Amin…

Looks like the same bait and switch Dr. K (Healthy Gamer) did. Put a real MD on the poster, and once they sign up hook your customers with people with 3 weeks of "professional training".

Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

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Post by christalwang »

aidenn0 wrote: post #32
christalwang wrote: post #22

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Can you expand more on your perspective on positive psychology?

Much of what I have encountered in Positive Psychology (with a capital "P"; i.e. the relatively young field) falls into two categories: 1. Incorporating things from previous research that are relatively uncontentious (e.g. flow 2. Tainted by academic fraud (e.g. Critical Positivity Ratio) Given that you can have #1 without defining a new field of psychology, I associate the field of Positive Psychology with #2.

In essence, practicing positive psychology, to us, means that we focus on the positive attributes and strengths of an individual - not on their pathology as in "traditional" approaches. It also means that we focus on helping our members achieve higher levels of well-being and personal growth as oppose to focusing solely on the symptoms relief.

Our key approach has been providing a mix of psychoeducational coaching interventions to enhance positive attributes in combination with other help our members can obtain - and not on short-term prescribed psychotherapies or medication as a sole mode of intervention.

Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

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Post by christalwang »

k__ wrote: post #50
kstrauser wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have some powerful coping mechanisms. I can manage my ADHD on my own. But earlier this year, I finally got around to working with a doc who prescribed me meds. It's amazing how much extra mental energy I have now that I'm not expending so much of it on those coping mechanisms. It's great to learn how to get by without meds. That's important, and the meds aren't a magic wand that will miraculously make you happy and…

This. I got meds with 37. Did a degree in CS and was successfully self-employed for years until that. Everything worked out okay-ish, but meds are a game changer. It really felt like I was playing "life" on hard mode until then.

Resonate.

Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

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Post by Blahah »

I absolutely adore this. Gonna message you Christal and Vikram, but what a lovely, thoughtful, difficult, energetic show HN.

Having spent years battling through medical services and alternatives, and doing self work, and being in community to handle this, it's such a breath of fresh air to see it being done well and in celebration of what ADHD can be.

Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

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Post by rendx »

kstrauser wrote: post #27
rendx wrote: post #20

What is your team's take on the theory of ADHD as a "survival strategy" of childhood/parent trauma, and healing it by working through the trauma instead of merely managing its symptoms?

I'm not on that team, but: that doesn't meet my experience in the slightest. My parents are great, and I didn't have any significant childhood trauma. In retrospect, my symptoms went back to when I was a wee little lad, well before I had to deal with any of life's curveballs.

Well, that theory says that typically memories of traumatic events are repressed and show up only in form of symptoms like ADHD. Your "claim" that you had a non-traumatic childhood (and your parents did neither?) does not invalidate that theory.

It's interesting how I was downvoted. I am just curious, I am not saying one or the other is "true". I have no idea, I am not a professional. However, I do think it is a relevant question to ask and discussion to have.

I am just looking into this as someone who only in his 40s discovered that he had significant childhood trauma that he was not in any way aware of, and my mother too which is something we never talked about, and that my symptoms and my "suffering" has finally almost disappeared now that I'm doing proper trauma therapy. I would have claimed I had "great parents" and "no childhood trauma" in the same way as you, and rejected that theory, if you had asked me a few years ago.

Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

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Post by [deleted] »

dsp_person wrote: post #30
hartator wrote: post #23

Funny this is one of the most distracting blog posts I've read in a bit. Emojis everywhere, boxes, Intercom, sign up to the newsletter, animations, confusing wordings, multiple colors for the text. I doubt the author has a grasping of ADHD.

> I doubt the author has a grasping of ADHD Do you? It can be hurtful to tell someone they "aren't ADHD enough". First line of the article: > I was diagnosed last year & wasn’t able to find an affordable, quality ADHD coach ADHD people might like the animations, emojis, and colors, and might not read a long boring plaintext article linearly from start to finish. Everyone has different preferences though... Personally…

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Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

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Post by mentalpiracy »

christalwang wrote: post #29
Unfrozen0688 wrote: post #26

I feel like I may have it, but I am so down in a hole I just want others to do the boring shit like cooking and cleaning and billing for me and I can just work & play. I have tried for years alredy. Is there a solution for that?

It sounds like you're maybe looking for a virtual assistant of some sort? I recently heard of a company Athena (more geared towards founders) and "The Doers" (more geared towards women business owners, I always get their ads on IG) but I think you can find a VA in many places. Not an expert in this space though!

??

I don’t believe a virtual assistant can cook, nor clean, nor anything else physical.

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