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"Coaching works best for those who are ready for forward movement" Meaning "if our product doesn't work, it's really your fault"
I read it as “you get out of it what you put into it”
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.
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Both PTSD and ADHD (and any other mental "disorder") are _defined as_ a list of symptoms, and do not imply different root causes. see e.g. "The hidden links between mental disorders" https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00922-8 available on sci-hub "Since the 1950s, psychiatrists have used an exhaustive volume called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, currently in its fifth edition. It lists all…
Yes, they do imply different root causes. PTSD requires a root cause of experiencing trauma. ADHD is not PTSD because it is not caused by trauma, and therefore therapy to deal with childhood trauma will not benefit people with ADHD. It is, however, very true that they can look the same. I work with kids who have been through trauma and it is only on the order of years since people started recognizing that in these ki…
That’s a lot of text for a landing page targeting people with ADHD. After a quick skim of it, I still don’t know why shimmer is any different than any other e-therapy service. Edit: just noticed you mentioned the stream lining of your site in your also very-long-post. The sign up is a type form. Why? That’s actually another barrier to signing up, and it feels weird being “off site”.
The biggest difference between Shimmer & e-therapy is that we offer Coaching. Coaching is a partnership for action—for goal-oriented action. You partner with your coach and make changes in your life to reach those goals: e.g. you may be perfecting your morning routine or working on your habits for work-from-home, whatever it may be. For e-therapy, or therapy, it's more about unpacking past to present, talking, processing, etc.
Lastly, for Typeform, we are also working on moving off of it, bad reason but also because we are a lean team and test each part of our flow first (with 3rd party services) and have slowly been migrating to build in house for parts most important. Right now many of our priority features are focused on member experience with coaching for building in-house.
I don't really understand what this could do. If you have ADHD, you can know everything in your head and still fail to put it into practice. Are there productivity hacks that can overcome that?
Perhaps the phone addiction is actually the root problem…instead of some totally unproven neurodevelopmental theory.
idk much about this, maybe it's really great, but i get a lot of instagram ads from a lot of no-name companies preying on people with ADHD, and their tendency to forget. they all follow a similar cringe tiktok formula "I have ADHD, after using XYZ, i've become so organized and productive!". their aim is to hit the user with a high subscription cost after a short trial. one of the scummier ads i've been shown is for "…
Unfortunately ADHD-specialized therapists are few and far between, especially once you layer in insurance. We are working on creating recommendations & databases of other ADHD-specialized helping professions like therapists to informally connect our members to when they need that!
Hi Christal and Vikram — I'm working on something in the same space but for autism and social skills. I'd love to hear more about how you went through the process for HSA/FSA eligibility.
Hi Christal and Vikram — I'm working on something in the same space but for autism and social skills. I'd love to hear more about how you went through the process for HSA/FSA eligibility.
I assume this is basically their main "secret sauce". I wouldn't count on it being shared.
It seems like so much of the confusion and distrust just comes from using the term "ADHD". Why not just talk about "focus", "motivation", etc.? You can still SEO the shit out of your product with more terms like "ADHD", "dopamine", "discipline", etc. and not have to wade through all this vitriol associated with insinuating licensed treatment of a medical disorder as a hook / marketing ploy.