Quirk CBT

This is a perfect supplement to therapy. It’s helped me slow down, examine my thoughts and reframe them. It’s like when you complain to a friend and they try to reason with you in an attempt to make you feel better and now you have this new perspective to think about. With Quirk you’re able to easily record the interaction and you’re forced to come up with a new perspective all on your own.

I like that this app is simple. Like other “CBT” apps, this app seems to be based on Albert Ellis’ REBT. However, it is missing a couple steps of REBT. For one, under Automatic Thought, it asks, “what is going on?” These are two different questions/steps in REBT. The last two queries—Challenge and Alternative Thought—are essentially the same step; i.e. “Disputation”. REBT asks the following questions; “what is going on” (Activating event), then “automatic thoughts” (Beliefs) then what you are “feeling” (Consequences), then “cognitive distortions” and “disputation” (Disputation), then “new feelings” (Effects). These are the ABCDE steps of Albert Ellis’ REBT or CBT.

We can spend our time, you know, shooting irate pigeons at building materials, or we can use our technology to rebuild our minds and straighten out bad thinking. Do the latter and do it with this app. I can’t wait till everyone discovers Quirk, this excellent app that helps you maintain your therapy gains on the bus, in the grocery line, or on the toilet (you know it’s true). Lean in with Quirk.

We tend to know what to do logically, but hard to enforce. Quirk makes it easy to record thoughts (good of bad), and help alter mindset long term. Quirk was particularly effective during a period of stress / uncertainty, I continue to use the app even when the need is less great, trust that long term its an investment in my own health + productivity, and general ability to appreciate life.

Thank you for this. This is basically a great app in this day and age that uses David burns’ three column method in his book “feeling good”. I’m so glad this app exists makes the process so much easier on your phone. No need to memorize the 10 distortions. Easy to navigate. I love this app. Thank you so much.