Aneela Kumar - Trichotillomania and the Keen Smart Bracelet (Ep91)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In episode 91 I interviewed Aneela Kumar. Aneela is the inspiration for HabitAware. The company behind “Keen” a smart bracelet that gently vibrates when you start to pick, pull or bite, to draw your attention to the unconscious habit. Aneela has had trichotillomania for 20+ years. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys and welcome to episode 91 at the OCD stories |
| 0:03.5 | dot com podcast now in this episode I interviewed |
| 0:06.7 | Anila Kumar I had the good fortune of meeting Anila at the |
| 0:10.5 | I steth conference in San Francisco this year and I wanted to get her on |
| 0:15.5 | because I'm all for technology and how that can boost the effectiveness of |
| 0:21.0 | therapy and recovery. So she, along with her husband has created a |
| 0:28.4 | smart sort of bracelet watch type thing called Keen and the company is called habit aware and what it does is it kind of it's aimed at sort of trickatillomania and dermontillomania so compulsive hair pulling or compulsive with skin picking. |
| 0:43.0 | And it's about every time you go to do that action, |
| 0:46.0 | whether it's pulling your hair, your eyebrows, |
| 0:48.0 | and her kneeless case she gets into her story, |
| 0:51.0 | or even something like picking your nose or picking the skin off your lip. |
| 0:55.8 | As soon as you get close to that, it vibrates because you've trained the bracelet along with an app |
| 1:01.5 | to notify it vibrates and it kind of makes you that |
| 1:04.7 | unconscious habit conscious which is kind of one of the first steps in |
| 1:09.2 | kind of recovery so and obviously it can out jog that whereas sometimes it's harder to be |
| 1:14.4 | conscious when it's quite an unconscious act and yeah I wanted to get her on to talk |
| 1:19.1 | about that because you know I'm all for technology boosting therapy and along you know this podcast is |
| 1:24.3 | sponsored by the guys that know CD the sort of exposure and obsession tracking app. |
| 1:30.0 | Technology isn't a replacement for therapy, absolutely not, still 100% advocate therapy, but sometimes |
| 1:37.9 | other things can boost and improve the effectiveness of therapy. So this may or may not help you. It's up to you |
| 1:45.3 | check it out and see what you think. And yeah and you know we also would obviously |
| 1:50.1 | don't just talk about the technology we talk about |
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