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   by christalwang 3y ago

   Thanks for weighing in—It is true that I was diagnosed last year, but that is most definitely not when my journey started. I grew up in an asian family as a "3rd culture kid", I'm also queer and came out in 2017, so things li
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   by christalwang 3y ago

   Definitely drug/alcohol. Among adults who have an alcohol use disorder, ADHD is 5-10 times more common (American Addiction Centers); Among children, children with ADHD are 2-3X more likely to abuse substances than kids in the general p
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   by christalwang 3y ago

   Good point and thought. I started this because of my ADHD built the product with a community of 50 ADHD-ers alongside us (not including the coaches and experts). We also do a lot of work in advocacy for adult ADHD, women x ADHD, BIPOC x ADH
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   by christalwang 3y ago

   We have a community of ADHD, Autism, and generally mental health founders that we build alongside of. Starting a startup is hard, especially when you're mission-driven, so we love helping wherever we can and will take the help we can g
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   by christalwang 3y ago

   Yes, definitely! Would love to chat and hear more about what you're building, and share whatever we can to help. Email us directly at hi@shimmer.care, both Vikram & I get emails from there!
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   by christalwang 3y ago

   I've seen the same ads, and we definitely don't advertise to "cure" ADHD in any way. We actually don't even do a free trial, as we want our members to be committing to the coaching process intentionally. We try to m
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   by christalwang 3y ago

   I love this question! This is the exact problem (or one of them) that we're solving. All the info is out there, but it's about practice. With your coach, you'll be experimenting each week with different skills or habits and t
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   by christalwang 3y ago

   Thank you—we have received this feedback a few times, and will definitely be decreasing the size and amount of text on our homepage. With 2 FTE (me and my co-founder & CTO Vikram), we haven't gotten around to it yet (but it's
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   by christalwang 3y ago

   Thank you, anonymous person! I appreciate the recognition a lot. I have personally gone through many routes as well, in support of my ADHD, and I hope to be able to continue creating & working on a piece of the solution that is benefici
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Exactly. The coach cannot do the work for you, but will support you along the way.
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Thank you!
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Thank you for sharing your thought process & feedback taken on the wording. I'll go back to this one. And I really do appreciate you sharing your personal story. Especially the last part where you acknowledge that we wouldn't
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Thank you for sharing your experiences - neurofeedback/ neurostimulation is indeed a novel and promising pathway to, ultimately, improving quality of life for those who has ADHD. While we can't talk about all of coaching since it
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Thanks and agree on protecting our members and their private conversations. Right now, we use Google Meet videos for the video sessions with a coach and so they are encrypted end-to-end and not recorded. We also don’t store any information
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    We hope to stay in this good faith category, and unfortunately are not able to offer "rock bottom app store prices". We believe in the power of human connection (with others, with coach) so we will not be replacing humans with AI.
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Thanks for having us in the "assume good faith" category—we are committed to staying there! And I appreciate your sentiment. We have already made changes to the website, communication, flows, and processes based on this megathread
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    None of them are our own in-house certifications. We haven't designed that yet, however we are considering it. Not meant to replace incoming certifications in the short- or medium-term, but to reward coaches for their learning and work
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    I'm super sorry to hear about your ex wife. I have someone close to me in the same situation and we've also been battling it for our whole lives. No need to apologize for the rant, I'm also here being mad for you (for us)!!
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    We thought about this a lot and asked many potential members and members. The purpose of this question is to get a sense of the most pressing challenges (such that if they begin, the coach knows them) so we don't want folks to answer &
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Wow, 3-min video. Exactly what I needed, thank you. Super interesting, I'm going to look into his work more.
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Thank you so much!
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Thank you for this. Many of our members have the exact experience you're talking about here. Many therapists go as far as saying they specialize with ADHD when they in fact don't. For those who do specialize in ADHD, it's far
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Thanks for your comment and perspective. Our services, as mentioned, are not medical services for ADHD. It is forward-looking, goal-oriented coaching with a specialty in ADHD and executive functioning. The entire modality is represented by
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    This was an excerpt of a longer message; we did not claim all our coaches are licensed or certified mental health professionals. Original wording: All of our Shimmer ADHD Coaches are licensed or certified mental health professionals* or ha
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    The most common certifications for ADHD coaches are from ICF and NB-HWC, although those generic coaching certifications are not just for ADHD. There are targeted training schools / credentials from organizations like iACT as well that
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    We also would like this to be covered through reimbursement, however we're not there yet (with ADHD Coaching) and right now it's primarily out of pocket. The team at Well Coaches and other organizations (including ICF, ACO) are wo
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    We weren't advertising anything that isn't true. We do have qualified mental health professionals on our coaching team (many of them are), but we changed the language so it didn't seem like they were providing medical service
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Agree that we want to bolster (1). Also we are not trying to prove we are medically improving symptoms, as that is not our service. We are helping members with ADHD reach future-oriented goals, and take ADHD-adapted approaches to coaching.
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    Thank you for this comment, we've changed the language to reflect this last point on formal medical accreditation, and clarified that even if they do have medical credentials, in Shimmer's capacity they will be practicing ADHD coa
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    by christalwang 3y ago

    We've just changed our language with the support of our care team and the folks in this thread! Super open to more suggestions if it can better represent what we're doing (ADHD Coaching)