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Simplified cognitive behavioral therapy on your phone
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Evan Conrad

Quirk - Simplified cognitive behavioral therapy on your phone

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Quirk is an open source, slimmed down CBT app for iOS. Unlike other apps, it doesn't force a particular condition on you. It doesn't assume that you're using it particularly for depression, which makes it useful for panic disorder, OCD, weight loss and more.

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Evan Conrad
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Here's five promo codes to get the app for free: JHPALTNMTPTX FEN3WYT7T6FP E349RJT34644 M3766XEKJLFF NTPNYLKJXRXM
Tudor Baidoc
@flaqueeau where do I insert it?
John Vonroth
@flaqueeau Saving everyone some time. All the codes have already been redeemed(not by me LOL)
Evan Conrad
Maker
@baidoct I think they're all gone, but for reference, open the app store on your phone, then go to your account, then hit "redeem gift card or code".
Roman V
What's about Android version? Do you have some plans for it?
Evan Conrad
Maker
@romanv Android version is definitely coming! Just focusing on getting one release out first 😅
Duarte Martins
@flaqueeau Please let me know when it's out 😄
Gianfranco
Evan Conrad
Maker
Hey folks! Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is designed to train you to recognize where your brain is thinking illogically. It's evidence backed and extremely effective at treating many mental health disorders including depression, anxiety, and panic. But it's also quite effective at: * dealing with day to day problems * making effective, rational decisions CBT asks you to buy into the idea that **your thoughts cause your moods,** and not the other way around. If you can believe that, CBT can be extremely effective for you. The process looks like this: 1. Recognize an "automatic thought" that may be causing your brain to work itself up. Like "that presentation went terrible." 2. Note the "cognitive distortions" or other logical errors with that thought. 3. Write out a "challenge" to that thought. Debate it! Really dig into why that doesn't make sense. 4. Write down an "alternative" thought that would be better to think in the future. If you do this enough, you'll train your brain to start thinking your alternative thoughts instead of you (often negative) automatic thoughts. I highly encourage you to try this out, even on paper if you have to. Quirk is just a small tool to help facilitate this. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this! Feedback is extremely appreciated. If you'd like to follow it's progress, subscribe here: https://timeline.noticeable.io/E...
Leon K.
@flaqueeau quirk looks super-useful!
Evan Conrad
Maker
@shpoont Thanks friend :)
Anna Filou
I like the UI very much. I don’t have any use for such an app but it seems like good thing that it does exist.
daniel
Thank you for making this Evan. CBT really helped me when a therapist introduced me to it a while back. Hope this gives everyone the opportunity to try it!
Evan Conrad
Maker
@danielkuntz0 thanks! By the way I really love your apps :)
daniel
@flaqueeau Thanks! Would love to chat with you if you have the time. Shoot me an email - daniel@kuntz.io
Evan Conrad
Maker
@danielkuntz0 Sentcha an email 👍
Jason Dainter
This looks incredible. Good work for building an app to solve such a meaningful problem. Cant wait to try it out. Big believer in CBT and its rather stoic methods of considering thoughts consciously, so curious to see how writing things down will aid this (I guess probably quite a bit). Any more of these codes going spare? @flaqueeau
Evan Conrad
Maker
@jasondainter I find that CBT has a lot in common with the stoic and mindfulness crowds. If you can realize that your brain just thinks on its own and you don't have to be a part of that thinking, you can really help yourself a lot. I'll PM you a code ❤️ If you like it, toss me a review ;)
Jason Dainter
@flaqueeau agree. "you are not your thoughts" is a good quote i read somewhere that always stuck with me. Thanks a lot for the code and sure thing with the review.
Niloufer Tamboly
How is the data you collect used?
Evan Conrad
Maker
@ntamboly all data (thoughts) collected stays on your device. I don't send it anywhere nor do I have the ability or desire to read your thoughts. Plus, Quirk is open source so it's fairly provably not doing anything nefarious: https://github.com/flaque/quirk
George Kunthara
Awesome work Evan. Love the design and especially the illustrations! 😀
Evan Conrad
Maker
@gkunthara Thanks George! :)
Leo Vogel
This is rather buggy with a poor UX. It feels like a website wrapped in an app—which it probably is. I recommend checking out MoodNotes instead.
Evan Conrad
Maker
@theleovogel Can you tell me which parts feel buggy or have a poor UX to you? (Outside of a super old version showing the first time you open the app; there's a fix coming out for that problem.)
Lino Grubben
This icon! 😆👌
Zack Shapiro
Hey @flaqueeau. Nice work! There seems to be a bug in saving on the first time user experience. Killing the app and reopening everything works fine. Just a heads up. If you’re using the iOS hapics stuff, I’d drop the tap from a hard to a medium. Feedback feels aggressive for a mental healthy app. That’s just a nitpick though. Have a great 2019!
Evan Conrad
Maker
@zackshapiro yup! There’s an update on its way to fix that, though thanks for the heads up! I’ll consider that. Do you mean on the “save” button?
cristen ✧* (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و
I'm really excited to try it and I love the principles you've outlined on the Github README.md. I'd like to see you add a CONTRIBUTING.md so we can understand better how to contribute (or if you don't want contributions at this time).
Evan Conrad
Maker
Pouria Mojabi
easy and clean!
Matthew Quinn
I've suffered in silence with my anxiety and imposter syndrome for a long time. Very excited to use this app. I'm not super familiar with CBT so it would be great if the app explained the labels or gave examples. Then I could identify my thoughts better.
Jason Dainter
Used this a bit, one suggestion under the cognitive distortions sections it would be good to give more help/guidance here. Some terms are very jargony (eg rely on someone either having a therapist or knowing a lot already about CBT) I had to google for example what "labelling" was and similar. Would be good to make that part easier, otherwise love the UI etc very clean and simple.
Haoyang Feng
@flaqueeau Love the design, open source (readme especially), and your passion for this space. 2 questions: do you have a roadmap & are you open to others contributing to the project?
Evan Conrad
Maker
@haoyangnz > do you have a roadmap I do, but it's mostly in my head. I should probably write it down somewhere. In no particular order order: 1. Onboarding (already done, just waiting on apple for this one) 2. Android release 3. Better text inputs that expand to allow more text 4. "Locking" the app 5. In-app explanations of cognitive distortions 6. In-app feedback system > are you open to others contributing to the project? More or less, if someone has a strong desire to work on it and is fairly self-directed, then sure. But the app isn't open source out of a desire for contributors; it's open source because most medical tech should be open source. When something's open source it's clear what's happening with your information, you can fix bugs that concern you, and the product won't ever just "die" one day because the developer abandoned it.
Stefaniya Piano
Would be happy to try android version 😊
Gianfranco
Adnan Moosa
Great app, I’ve always wanted to dabble into CBT so I purchased this app right away. I think it would be helpifil to have a link to a video or a tutorial somewhere on the app, just in case users are confused about any steps!
Josh Day
Good idea. But super buggy.
Manuel
Could you add something like a pin protection / faceid? 😄