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As someone that has been reccomended CBT but never been inclined: I think a keyboard for mobile devices that does this sort of detection on forms and messages c

As someone that has been reccomended CBT but never been inclined: I think a keyboard for mobile devices that does this sort of detection on forms and messages could be really helpful for people to help them become more aware of themselves and to help with the feeling they are offloading 'all the little things' onto people, It could help build better communcation skills, I'm wondering if context/explaination why could be explained on request or if this is more of a trainer neural network making the classifications

DanBC 8y ago
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a way for a person to examine their own thinking, and to provide different thoughts to their automatic thought. In the example given on the giithub page a person (I'll call him Bob) has just been to interview and feels they did terribly. Bob also thinks that the interviewer now hates him. Bob (who has a bit of familiarity with CBT) thinks this type of thinking involves "mind reading" (knowing what the interviewer thinks), "fortune telling" (knowing what the future holds), and "catastrophising" (assuming the worst). The next stages for Bob might be to recognise that he doesn't actually know how the interviewer feels; that even if the interviewer does hate him well so what; that he doesn't know how badly he did at interview; and even if he did terribly well so what, it's still useful practice. CBT is NOT about a therapist telling you these things. The therapist is merely telling you how CBT works and leading you into it and training you how to use it. You come up with all your automatic thoughts yourself, you come up with the evidence you have to support those, and then you come up with the alternatives and the evidence to support that.
tastroder 8y ago
A major purpose of this exercise in CBT is training the subject to identify these thoughts and the defective cognitive pattern behind them themselves. I think a keyboard automating the process for every input might potentially have harmful effects, serving as a constant reminder of the disease and with wrong timing lowering confidence in something the person maybe thought about a lot before writing it down. What I'm trying to say is, the app OP has published looks nice and offers a digital alternative for a singular mechanism of CBT at the users convenience. The rest is not a tech problem.
- kodz4 8y ago
  How frequently in a day is a reminder healthy?
  - tastroder 8y ago
    While most apps I'm aware of in this context come with some configurability in that regard (e.g. letting you choose the time of day, opt out, etc.), I'd say that highly depends on quite a few factors. Just like the frequency of in person therapy visits usually is adjusted by personal progress (at least around here and in the context of CBT), these mechanics aren't applied as the only measure. Assessing your thought process in this structured manner might be helpful one week, while being a thing to obsess about another and other techniques or a mix might have more positive impact. My main thinking point was the constant nature of the suggestion that I'd have an issue with. It wouldn't really allow to factor in a person's current requirements.

DanBC 8y ago

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a way for a person to examine their own thinking, and to provide different thoughts to their automatic thought. In the example given on the giithub page a person (I'll call him Bob) has just been to interview and feels they did terribly. Bob also thinks that the interviewer now hates him. Bob (who has a bit of familiarity with CBT) thinks this type of thinking involves "mind reading" (knowing what the interviewer thinks), "fortune telling" (knowing what the future holds), and "catastrophising" (assuming the worst). The next stages for Bob might be to recognise that he doesn't actually know how the interviewer feels; that even if the interviewer does hate him well so what; that he doesn't know how badly he did at interview; and even if he did terribly well so what, it's still useful practice. CBT is NOT about a therapist telling you these things. The therapist is merely telling you how CBT works and leading you into it and training you how to use it. You come up with all your automatic thoughts yourself, you come up with the evidence you have to support those, and then you come up with the alternatives and the evidence to support that.

tastroder 8y ago

A major purpose of this exercise in CBT is training the subject to identify these thoughts and the defective cognitive pattern behind them themselves. I think a keyboard automating the process for every input might potentially have harmful effects, serving as a constant reminder of the disease and with wrong timing lowering confidence in something the person maybe thought about a lot before writing it down. What I'm trying to say is, the app OP has published looks nice and offers a digital alternative for a singular mechanism of CBT at the users convenience. The rest is not a tech problem.

kodz4 8y ago
How frequently in a day is a reminder healthy?
- tastroder 8y ago
  While most apps I'm aware of in this context come with some configurability in that regard (e.g. letting you choose the time of day, opt out, etc.), I'd say that highly depends on quite a few factors. Just like the frequency of in person therapy visits usually is adjusted by personal progress (at least around here and in the context of CBT), these mechanics aren't applied as the only measure. Assessing your thought process in this structured manner might be helpful one week, while being a thing to obsess about another and other techniques or a mix might have more positive impact. My main thinking point was the constant nature of the suggestion that I'd have an issue with. It wouldn't really allow to factor in a person's current requirements.