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Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
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#112Earlier 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.
Can I ask which meds did you get?
Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
#113> We’re beyond thrilled to announce the public launch of our #1 requested feature: Web Access.
Umm, am I missing something? It reads like "web access" is your unique selling point? Weird...
Re: Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
#114Love this!
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's absurd to claim that you're not trying to pass as a medical service when you're offering coaching for a neurological condition. You can argue medical vs healthcare or whatever semantics you want but if it quacks like a duck it's a duck.
Is my golf coach a physical therapist or a physical movement coach? He's been helping me improve my swing around an injury I had dirt biking.
If your golf coach is helping you with your golf swing, I'd say that he's a golf coach.
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#116I 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?
I think you shouldn't even try to self diagnose and get a professional assessment instead.
To give my personal anecdote, to me it sounds more like depression. I have ADHD (diagnosed at a very young age) and the thing is I very very much want to do the boring stuff. However the procrastination and forgetfulness is almost unavoidable and much worse is how hard it is to focus. Couldn't read a page of a book if the window is open and I heard the slightest bird chirp. Need absolute silence and order to be able to focus on the task at hand.
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#117"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…
Appreciate this question, it's one we've gotten a lot and quite frankly I agree we haven't nailed the best way to articulate it. To answer a few of your questions... - We don't use psychologists or psychotherapists as the front-line helper because there is a severe shortage of them and our main goal is accessibility. There is a provider shortage (psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, etc.) in the US and most plac…
> quite frankly I agree we haven't nailed the best way to articulate it.
You've certainly nailed the best way to articulate "we haven't worked out how to best phrase our bullshit to fly under the radar" though.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coaching works best for those who are ready for forward movement: unlike most types of therapy, coaching is goal-oriented / solution-oriented and requires the member to be in a good enough space to want to look into the future & put in the work. Often members use therapy / medication in tandem with coaching. Coaching works least effectively for those with severe comorbidities like depression/anxiety/bi-polar that are…
"Coaching works best for those who are ready for forward movement" Meaning "if our product doesn't work, it's really your fault"
Come on, that's unfair. It's one thing to be sceptical about this particular product, but the assertion that outside of a clinical, targetted environment, people need to want to receive the help they're getting to benefit is not controversial. If you obstinately refuse to read any courseware or attend any lectures, do you turn around and blame the school when you fail to learn anything from a class?
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Shimmer is NOT clinical and we do NOT provide licensed medical services In which case I personally find the phrase "All of our Shimmer ADHD Coaches are licensed or certified mental health professionals" to be quite deceptive.
Thank you for pinpointing this. I re-read many times, and I agree with you. I've just re-written the whole section with our Lead Coaching Psychologist, Xenia.
Your website has photos of the doctors for the "care team" and coaches buried under a link. Come on, just be uprfront with people.
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#120I 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?
> I just want others to do the boring shit like cooking and cleaning and billing for me and I can just work & play.
Congratulations, you are just like every other human on the planet. We really need to stop passing off regular human traits as medical disorders.