sense most online business are having black friday is it worth buying something or should i pass and try to save my money. im a teen i have around 200$ but i would like to limit myself to 100$ or less. im probably posting this in the wrong place but im not sure, i just want to make a smart choice when it comes to money.
also i will not be investing in stocks or crypto so please dont suggest it.
This is the neurophysiological advice I gave.
Firstly, you are the epitome of clowns if you think $500 smartwatch ewaste is helping anyone with those kinds of issues over serious neurological, physiological and psychological advice, which would be very close to what I gave, and NOT BUYING $500 TECH JUNK NOT FIT FOR PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL CONDITIONS. People with these conditions are the exception, and no such people will ever be told to even consider junk smartwatches. If my advice was “general” advice, so is yours. (Spoiler: its not, my advice is medically backed and atleast 50x more applicable than yours.)
People with physical disabilities usually have some form of gear or prosthetics to be able to move around unless there is complete paralysis. ADHD people are even riskier since smartwatches overload you with unnecessary statistics. Someone who works multiple jobs still has 20 minutes of free time to exercise and another 20 to get some sunshine, this is complete utter bullshit.
You know what is far superior to a watch with two millimetres thick vibration motor? Your ears being able to hear sound. Gentle Wakeup alarm app is made by a doctor, is based on lots of things like circadian rhythms, REM cycles, emulating sunlight, emulating sounds of natural environments, serotonin levels, and I am using it since 2017. A smartwatch is doing none of that, and is not made by doctors, or can wake you up without breaking your REM cycles. I am sure you will bring examples of someone who is both deaf and blind, which will just make me ignore anything you say.
If you have anger management issues, therapy and meditation is a must, and smartwatch is not saving someone going around punching or stabbing people. Asylum exists for them.
Shit, did I forget some people can have allergy strapping rubber or clothing or metal on their wrists, since you are using that logic?
A smartwatch is not solving problems realistically, because it did not exist until very recently. It is a novelty luxury and a fashion gadget, not a tool for ANY person with ANY medical condition. A smartwatch is in no form or shape a necessity for any person, and far superior physical monitoring tools for strapping to body exist, that are medically backed and certified for relevant patients. Telling people with medical conditions to waste $500 every 2 years on ewaste is fucking [REDACTED], because that is what you are advocating, thinking your little pseudointellectual monologue is convincing.
Unless you reply anything substantial, medically backed and coherent, I will just ignore any of your dumbass ramblings.
You missed my point entirely. My point is that slapping on a $200 smartwatch is an easier solution for some people to improve their lives at least marginally
The only specific thing you suggested implementing is the app. You spoke nothing of motivators that actually help achieve most of the goals you spoke of. Smartwatches are one way of providing motivation by gamifying metrics like step counts and hours slept. The people I know who actively wear ones appreciate having a multipurpose pedometer on them at all times.
This is more likely a symptom of health anxiety rather than ADHD. Even if not, not everyone with ADHD gets anxious and overwhelmed by random statistics. You cannot gaslight me into thinking that my watch doesn’t help me by telling me to walk around after, for example, spending an hour reading random news stories.
I’m not going to dismiss your app suggestion, but have you seriously never heard anyone of sleeping past their multiple alarms?
Yes, but in the same way that physical healthcare is inaccessible for many, mental healthcare is inaccessible. Finding therapists for a set of niche conditions is often time consuming, expensive, and mentally/emotionally draining. It takes experimentation to find a therapist that will click for a certain person. Using my insurance, it’s literally cheaper to buy a smart watch every 2 weeks to 2 months than to visit a therapist at the recommended 2 weeks interval. You severely underestimate the cost of healthcare and overestimate the cost of “ewaste,” and that’s ignoring the time commitment of healthcare.
I am one of those people, and I still wear a smartwatch. If you apply the same logic to commonly prescribed medications (e.g. Adderall and dry mouth/insomnia; some asthma medications and suicidal thoughts), then you’d quickly realize that doctors do a cost-benefit analysis before giving a treatment and that your logic is wrong.
I don’t remember ever saying it was a necessity. I said it was a tool. A Swiss army knife is never going to replace a drill because they serve different functions. If you don’t know how to use either, then you shouldn’t use either without learning first. I don’t see how a smart watch is different in that regard.