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| Pre-App on the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco |
I got my first iPhone a couple months
ago and immediately started loading up the apps, with a ridiculously ravenous
app-etite.
First, the language apps: Hebrew in a month, French for
kids, Russian for idiots, a German refresher, Latin for the classics lover, Chinese
for the modern woman (names changed slightly, I want to be like Switzerland and
mostly neutral about endorsement unless the product is exceptional).
Then the live-more-practically apps: tripit (goodbye my
usual manilla folder of every voyage), skyscanner, yelp etc….
Now, I’m on a CBT app kick. I was dabbling with meh apps
until….Thanks to my fabulous and always tech-savvy two-steps ahead friend and colleague Dehra
Glueck, I found myself playing
with SuperBetter instead of paying full attention to the very long update in
Psychopharmacology we were recently attending together. SuperBetter is the
child that CBT would have if it reproduced with World of Witchcraft (ok-I’ve
never actually visited World of Witchcraft but I know that it has levels,
monsters, quests etc…). Go on a quest: replenish your mental or your physical
or your emotional or your social battery. Defeat your cognitive distorsion: zap!
Get a point or two. In fact, don’t defeat your cognitive distorsion and the app
nurtures you nevertheless: it offers you resiliency points and promotes you to
warrior master level. Incredibly
clever behaviorism.
I cannot wait to show this to my patients, especially the
slightly nerdy ones who hate the typical CBT homework.
Till Later,
Anne
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