Programs
A program helps you work on one pattern in your daily life, one step at a time.
The Human Experience Framework describes sixteen patterns. Each one has a name, like Living in Threat. Each paid program is written for one of them.
When you start, you answer about twenty minutes of questions. If your answers clearly match one pattern, the app tells you which one. A pattern isn’t a diagnosis.
In the app now
Living in Threat
Living in Threat is a pattern where part of you expects something bad to happen. You get ready for it before you know whether it will. You keep thinking about what could go wrong. A tightness shows up in your chest or your stomach. Then you do something to stay safe: preparing, checking, asking, leaving early.
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The program starts with a short practice. It’s for the days you already feel on edge. Then come experiments. In each one, you pick a situation you expect to go badly. You also pick one thing you usually do to make sure it goes okay, like checking again or leaving early. This time, you don’t do it. Then you see what really happens.
Living in Addiction and Compulsion
Before you stop drinking, or stop taking a medication, talk to a doctor or the person who prescribed it. Stopping alcohol or some medications suddenly can be dangerous.
Planned next
If the program for your pattern isn’t in the app yet, the app says so, and you keep your morning and evening questions and the practices.
If you’re looking for help with something specific
People look for help with many things that can be part of these patterns.
- Constant worry, panic attacks, dreading the day before it starts, or checking things again and again can be part of Living in Threat.
- Living in Addiction and Compulsion is for drinking, drug use, gambling, or anything else you keep reaching for that helps right away and costs you later.
Living in Threat and Living in Addiction and Compulsion are patterns, not diagnoses. Cathexis doesn’t diagnose.
Free
Still Here and New Ground
Still Here and New Ground are free programs. They use the same method as the paid programs, and they’re shorter. You open them from the Practices screen, any time, without the twenty minutes of questions a paid program starts with.
Five practices
- Looking Around
- The Long Exhale
- Waking Your Body
- Holding Steady
- Guess the Sensation
Who writes them
Every program is written by Justin DeGarbo, a clinician who has spent more than a decade in residential treatment and recovery care.
What it costs
Cathexis Program
$12.99 a month
It gives you every paid part of the app, including the paid programs. Two paid programs at launch: Living in Threat, and Living in Addiction and Compulsion. Four more come as updates. You can cancel any time in your Apple account, and everything free stays free.
Everything else is free, and it stays free: the morning and evening questions, the five practices, Still Here and New Ground. There’s no free trial.