Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps
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#2Damn it I thought they were going to resurrect the Mindset computer from 1985. Such an awesome machine.
Re: Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps
#3Clicked on the link on my phone and hitting the back button just refreshed the page over and over again. Had to long press the back button and select hackernews to escape. Stop overwriting the back functionality of the browser please!
Re: Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps
#4Hey HN, I'm Alex. I’m the co-founder of Mindset Health, a digital health startup that makes hypnosis-based management programs for chronic health conditions.
Hypnosis get’s a bad rap but it’s essentially just a state of focused attention and absorption where you become more suggestible. It’s an experiential learning state that amplifies therapeutic techniques, from CBT to visualization and direct suggestion.
If you’re interested in learning more, here’s a recent study from Stanford on the brain areas activated during hypnosis: (https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/07/study-identif...) and a meta-analysis on hypnosis as an adjunct to CBT vs CBT alone (http://coyoteinstitute.us/Hypnosis%20as%20an%20Adjunct%20to%...).
We work with expert doctors and psychologists to deliver audio hypnotherapy sessions (think goal-orientated guided meditation) through mobile apps for various health conditions, like anxiety and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
I work on Mindset Health with my brother, Chris, and small (but awesome) team based out of Melbourne, Australia. We raised our US$1.1m seed round coming out of Y Combinator and are passionate about empowering people to manage their conditions themselves, from home.
We have two programs at the moment, Mindset for Mental Health and Nerva for IBS.
Mindset is based on the work by Dr Michael Yapko, a world-leading expert in the clinical uses of hypnosis and involves teaching coping skills while in a hypnotic state.
Nerva is based on the work by Dr Simone Peters, who ran a randomized clinical study with Monash University that found her 6-week gut-directed hypnotherapy approach helped 71% of participants improve their symptoms by an average of 62%.
We want your feedback, questions, and ideas. We know the topics of ‘hypnosis’ and ‘hypnotherapy’ bring up questions and skepticism and we’d love to dive deeper into those questions.
Re: Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps
#5Hey HN, I'm Alex. I’m the co-founder of Mindset Health, a digital health startup that makes hypnosis-based management programs for chronic health conditions. Hypnosis get’s a bad rap but it’s essentially just a state of focused attention and absorption where you become more suggestible. It’s an experiential learning state that amplifies therapeutic techniques, from CBT to visualization and direct suggestion. If you’r…
I will gladly hand over my money for an app that will hypnotize me to stop procrastinating and make me like my job.
Re: Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps
#6Hey HN, I'm Alex. I’m the co-founder of Mindset Health, a digital health startup that makes hypnosis-based management programs for chronic health conditions. Hypnosis get’s a bad rap but it’s essentially just a state of focused attention and absorption where you become more suggestible. It’s an experiential learning state that amplifies therapeutic techniques, from CBT to visualization and direct suggestion. If you’r…
I will gladly hand over my money for an app that will hypnotize me to stop procrastinating and make me like my job.
We actually have a course on procrastination (by a different practitioner, not Dr Yapko) but you'll have to learn to like your job yourself haha.
Re: Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps
#7Damn it I thought they were going to resurrect the Mindset computer from 1985. Such an awesome machine.
That's stage 2 of our roadmap
Re: Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps
#8Hey HN, I'm Alex. I’m the co-founder of Mindset Health, a digital health startup that makes hypnosis-based management programs for chronic health conditions. Hypnosis get’s a bad rap but it’s essentially just a state of focused attention and absorption where you become more suggestible. It’s an experiential learning state that amplifies therapeutic techniques, from CBT to visualization and direct suggestion. If you’r…
I will gladly hand over my money for an app that will hypnotize me to stop procrastinating and make me like my job.
Isn’t this the plot of Office Space?
Re: Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps
#9Hey HN, I'm Alex. I’m the co-founder of Mindset Health, a digital health startup that makes hypnosis-based management programs for chronic health conditions. Hypnosis get’s a bad rap but it’s essentially just a state of focused attention and absorption where you become more suggestible. It’s an experiential learning state that amplifies therapeutic techniques, from CBT to visualization and direct suggestion. If you’r…
I'm pretty sure I have a (very) mild form of trichotillomania, where I pick at my beard absentmindedly and pull out "odd" hairs more often than I'd like. Trying to be conscious about it has already improved the issue as I've aged, but I have always harbored a desire to find out if hypnotism would help. Any idea if this kind of behavior has been eased by your styles of therapies?
Re: Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps
#10Clicked on the link on my phone and hitting the back button just refreshed the page over and over again. Had to long press the back button and select hackernews to escape. Stop overwriting the back functionality of the browser please!
These people are shoveling out an app based on hypnosis, did you expect a respectable site?