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Signed up, paid (or donated, not sure how it works) maximum amount for the app. It’s about $18 for a trial period, then something like $200 per 3 months after t
by tomcam 3y ago
Signed up, paid (or donated, not sure how it works) maximum amount for the app. It’s about $18 for a trial period, then something like $200 per 3 months after the trial. Dirt cheap if it helps. I average less than 2 hours of sleep a night. Some notes.
* They start with a questionnaire about your sleep. But that seems to be like those deceptive political ads that look like a questionnaire but are just fundraising clickbait, because…
* After paying I had to fill out a nearly identical questionnaire. Hey, fuck you and the horse you rode in on, you fucking pricks. You just charged me money to waste my fucking life energy. Hey, did I mention I have sleep problems?
* The app provides some version of cognitive behavioral therapy via insulting cartoons. The main therapist or narrator or whatever is the most goddamn condescending talking cartoon owl I can imagine.
My sleep problems are no joke and being talked down to by an owl animated by a $75 Fiverr gig does not make me feel like a valued customer.
I’m desperate enough to go through with this but it’s not an auspicious start.
- neilv 3y agoThis sounds like helpful critique, but you might want to edit out the part about horses.
- tomcam 3y agoI meant every word. It was exactly what I felt seeing my precious hours on this earth vaporizing to no good end.
- johnsimer 3y agoThese are the same forms a sleep doc putting you on CBD-I will have you fill out. Except they will charge you a lot more money, have you come to the office and have you fill out the same form 3 times a row (online, then at the office, then verbally while talking to doctor) in typical doctor’s office fashion
- tomcam 3y agoI have never been condescended to more than by that fucking owl
- TheHumanist 3y agoFuck that owl
- H8crilA 3y agoI have nothing to do with the product, and I understand the frustration. But if you sleep 2hrs/day you should probably be in a (psychiatric) hospital instead of trying apps. That is very severe, and likely caused by a significant (mental) disorder. Also, as a side note, cognitive behavioral therapy may feel like it is infantlizing you because it is digging up stuff that an adult should be able to understand and process more or less effortlessly on their own. But that's kind of the point of that therapy.
- tomcam 3y agoAll good points. I’m seeing my primary care physician with data from Fitbit the first time next week. Normally they just prescribed different sleep drugs, but none does anything for me. I think that up to this point, they probably assumed I was exaggerating the issues.
- pedalpete 3y agoIf this is correct that you are only getting 2 hrs sleep, and not just the data from your watch telling you bad number, your primary physician likely won't know enough about sleep to help. Go see a sleep specialist. The drugs will help you get unconscious, they don't help with sleep. A CBT-I app is likely not the solution for you either.
- tomcam 3y agoCurrent sleep specialist just upsold me another cpap and plied me with more drugs. I don’t think they understand how bad it is, hence the Fitbit. > The drugs will help you get unconscious, they don't help with sleep. It’s something. I hate them though > A CBT-I app is likely not the solution for you either. I’d sacrifice a goat in Times Square if I thought it would help
- nextaccountic 3y agoYou need to see another specialist doctor. Don't give up
- anagri 3y ago++ good problem to solve, nice personal story, but disappointed it is translating into clickbait+data scraping
- tomcam 3y agoHow so?