Molehill Mountain

I’m an autistic woman who was diagnosed at age 28. My anxiety has been lifelong, and in my late 20s, was debilitating enough to go to a therapist. (My therapist was the one who clued me into autism.) Therapy didn’t last long, because I feel heightened anxiety whenever there is another person in the room. Given my barrier to therapy, this Molehill Mountain app is an incredibly valuable resource to me. Thank you to the creators and researchers behind it!

Overall this app has been helpful but there are a few things about it that I had concerns with, I'll put those after the main review. ✌️ Having an app that centers on autism and allows you to express things in autistic terms takes out a lot of the frustration i was feeling with other apps, The feeling of "no, that's not quite it, I'm being misunderstood here/this is not suited to my needs", which is great! That's maybe the biggest draw of this app for me. Concerns: First being that you get one check in and cannot alter it. I found myself concerned that I'd have a worry to log after the check in time, or that i'd forget a worry earlier in the day and not be accurately logging my anxiety. Second, the worry graph. It doesn't seem to make sense. The description provided doesn't clarify what the two colors actually mean, or what they correspond to, and there is an additional bar for my anxieties tomorrow? As in, a day in the future? That I have not logged yet? And it is always very high compared to the others? I'm not sure what to make of this. I'm aware these are nitpicky, but they're negatively impacting my experience so I thought I'd share.

I find it overwhelming and more inaccessible now with all these added features. I don’t even know how to use it anymore and I can’t figure out how to change me worried. I hate graphs as a disabled person. I hate scales. There are too many questions to the point that I don’t know what to put where anymore. I think it needs to be simplified again. The breathing is good and I like the layout of the old tips better, but it’s actually distressing that if I don’t stick to a schedule I don’t get to read the new tip. I hate that.