How Intellect helps me to overcome my anxiety
In November last year, I got my very first full-time job. Neither as a freelancer nor a part-timer. My position was quite different from my major. No, it was extremely different. It was like I need to re-start the lesson I never learned.
As a person who was diagnosed with an anxiety attack, I had to deal with my new role and its risks. I found it’s hard to adjust myself to a new place and a new circumstance.
In the first month of my probation, I felt like I cannot endure all burdens on my shoulders. I needed to start new habits that I never experienced before. I needed to meet new people and had to call them by phone.
It’s always been difficult for me to begin with. It made me anxious all of sudden. I could not avoid the panic. I was always frightened by the time my phone rang and yet I needed to pick it up. I could not control my voice every time I talked to someone. I found it’s hard to explain what I needed to because I cannot arrange my sentence well. It bothered me and I knew I need to try some ways to help me to overcome it.
By the end of last year, when I opened Play Store, I quite forgot what apps I wanted to install, I found a recommendation app on my timeline. It was named Intellect. I didn’t know if some people are familiar with it, but when I read the feedback section of this app, most comments were positive. They felt this app can help them to make signs of progress in their daily life. So, I thought I need to try it too.
On the Home page, there are Learning Paths, Guided Journals, and Rescue Sessions menu.
In the Learning Paths, you can choose what’s the path you want to develop or you need to overcome the most. There are some choices. I think they put those issues based on what people experienced the most. In the first trial, I chose Anxiety and Worry as the path I learn. There were some sessions I have to complete and the goal I need to accomplish.
The thing I love the most about this app is when I cannot share my problems with anyone and cannot write them on the journal or the note, I feel like I can say anything I wanted cause they give me some questions that are not demanding. They start with basic questions and improve them until the root of the issue day by day.
These screenshots show the goal I need to accomplish to help my problem.
Then, there is the Rescue Sessions menu. If the Learning Paths menu helps us to manage our problem by seeing the progress we made in a specific moment, the Rescue Sessions presents some choices to help our rough day at any time. We do not need any sessions to try this menu.
When we need some space to write anything we want, they give us a Guided Journals menu. Basically, it is similar to a note tool in the phone, but they give particular issues which we can choose freely.
The Task section contains the history of the progress of our path. It shows what are sessions we took and learned.
The last section is Profile. Accumulations of our psychological result, our Streaks, our Journals, and the thing I love the most over this app is they provide our well-being monthly report included mood timeline, frequent emotions, stress level, and stress timeline. It really helps us to know what’s the best action we take to overcome our problem.
Well, why the title was How Intellect Helps Me to Overcome My Anxiety when my results are not that good? Here’s the point, Intellect helped me to measure my mood, my stress, and my emotion through the session I had been passed. I feel so relieved that I know when I have nobody to share, all questions were given by this app can represent the person I needed to talk to.
I have been using Intellect for at least 3 months and until now, I never thought to remove it from my device. I know my emotion was quite volatile, but now I understand how to treat myself. When my stress was high and gets higher, I know I need time to rest. I hope people who had the same issue as me can also found a way to overcome it anyway.
