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$99 a month subscription, because they're FDA or whatever approved. Is there corruption with these kind of things, or did they just hit jackpot?
Only the USA healthcare system could give life to such an abomination.
I'm extremely skeptical. I've yet to see a treatment for ADHD that is only effective on children 8-17. If their product actually worked, I'm sure they wouldn't want to exclude the massive market of adults with ADHD. I'm also opposed to any medical device that uses a cell phone or requires a download from an app store. At that point you're handing over at least some amount of medical information to an ad company, usin…
Wait, how isnt that privacy policy terrible? No medical treatment should also be selling your behavior to advertisers.
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> Programming is not fantastic for ADHD. Especially when majority of people don’t have ADHD to begin with. They are looking for an excuse for their lack of ability to focus on a boring task. An excuse, or an explanation? I have ADHD and programming is and always has been fantastic for me, if the project is not boring.
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what do you mean by "this" in that sentence?
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> Programming is not fantastic for ADHD. Especially when majority of people don’t have ADHD to begin with. They are looking for an excuse for their lack of ability to focus on a boring task. An excuse, or an explanation? I have ADHD and programming is and always has been fantastic for me, if the project is not boring.
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(while I'm not claiming this is exactly the situation, your posts put me in mind of the projection of some homophobes: (heavily paraphrasing:) "Well, of course everyone finds their own gender sexy, the gays just don't resist that impulse!" -> "Well of course everyone finds focus extremely difficult except for on a few specific activities, just some are using a disorder as an excuse!")
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I can barely get myself to play games I'm actually interested in, since there's always something slightly more interesting than that. I can imagine this would be not only a complete non-starter but also... how is this specific video game supposed to help?
My guess is that this is indeed what gaming would practic: prolonged focus on a single activity. For me it seems like other games would also do, as long as they don't promote "scatterbrain".
Playing video games is thus usually a problem, not treatment - games are just more interesting in the moment than anything else you can or should be doing, so it's hard to stop playing. Ripping out everything that makes the game interesting and stimulating doesn't turn it into a therapeutic tool, it turns it into a bullshit chore that's done on a computer. In comparison, doing your taxes may seem more appealing, because while it's mind-dumbingly boring, it's at least not a make-believe time waster. Which I suppose could be of therapeutic value, if not for the fact that other videogames still exist.
(And so do books, TV shows, parties, substances, whatnot.)
$99 a month subscription, because they're FDA or whatever approved. Is there corruption with these kind of things, or did they just hit jackpot?
If it works, then that’s not a bad price at all. ADHD attentional issues will suck orders of magnitude more money out of your life if left untreated in some people.
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> Programming is not fantastic for ADHD. Especially when majority of people don’t have ADHD to begin with. They are looking for an excuse for their lack of ability to focus on a boring task. An excuse, or an explanation? I have ADHD and programming is and always has been fantastic for me, if the project is not boring.
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>The current cost for EndeavorRx is $99 for a 30 day prescription. Why is everything subscription based nowadays? Even without a subscription $99 would seem a lot to me. I guess because something something server costs and update development? Or is it just plain greed? PS: Programming is absolutely fantastic, too, when you have ADHD (an probably even if you don't have it). It also doesn't cost a dime and there is ple…
everything is subscription based, because companies have a continuous income stream (as opposed to one time large payment). With an continuous income stream you can plan better.
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> Programming is not fantastic for ADHD. Especially when majority of people don’t have ADHD to begin with. They are looking for an excuse for their lack of ability to focus on a boring task. An excuse, or an explanation? I have ADHD and programming is and always has been fantastic for me, if the project is not boring.
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We call them abnormal, because they are abnormal. It can be seen in brain scans, that the ADHD brain behaves different than most other brains. But that obviously doesn't imply that any Person with ADHD should take drugs because of that. Drugs are not a solution, they are an aid. Yes, people like different things.