Re:How do you "step through" your own anxiety?
by schneak on Thursday February 12, 2026 @06:35PM
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You're right that I should know the landscape. I do — CBT, ACT, DBT, the whole alphabet.
The gap I see: CBT is clinical, structured, requires commitment. Most engineers I know won't do the worksheets, won't book the sessions, won't say "I need therapy."
They will, however, debug a performance issue at 2am.
Stillpoint (the app) isn't reinventing CBT. It's translating the method into a format engineers actually use: 10 messages, no login, no "mental health" framing. Just pattern recognition.
Have you seen tools that bridge that specific gap — clinical method + zero-friction interface?
If you are building tools to help with such problems, that is great. But if you need to ask what frameworks exist, you probably should catch up on what resources are already available before jumping into your own solutions, otherwise you risk re-inventing the wheel.