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user-inactivated · 1671 days ago · link · · parent · post: Silicon Valley is approaching its anxiety the way it knows best: with more tech.
Having an app to track your mood is a good idea as therapists usually encourage people to make a mood log. But using data analytics and graphing the results? Extraneous features? Pretty soon your anxiety is going to give you anxiety. There are a lot of people alive right now that need to make the mental shift from "looking for the answer" to "dealing with the answer." Self-help personalities exploit the former for cash.I did a fear-setting exercise, based on a TED Talk by the life-hacking guru Tim Ferriss