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After the pandemic, many individuals selected to reevaluate their relationship to alcohol. Reframe, a neuroscience- and psychiatry-based app, was launched in 2020 to assist individuals in the reduction of or give up consuming altogether. The startup was based by Vedant Pradeep and Ziyi Gao, two Georgia Tech graduates who realized there was no center floor to assist those that didn’t have a scientific downside with alcohol however needed to alter their habits.
“We have been fascinated by the thought of the height human situation, the place somebody is the most effective model of themselves mentally, bodily, and emotionally,” Pradeep explains. He acknowledges that was a bit esoteric, in order that they appeared into fixing a focused downside. Pradeep has Obsessive Compulsive Dysfunction, and the pair of engineers set about attempting to assist these with related circumstances. “We started speaking to individuals with OCD and realized that a number of them have been utilizing alcohol as a technique to self-medicate,” he says.
They switched gears, and now Reframe focuses solely on a person’s relationship with alcohol. The app makes use of science to assist customers develop coping methods. “Alcohol shouldn’t be the issue itself; it’s a symptom. It’s a nasty coping technique,” he says. “We assist customers determine what the actual downside is and find out how to cope in a more healthy vogue.”
Paid customers get personalised packages that may assist with particular person targets, monitoring progress, meditations, dream monitoring, and extra. Every thing is science-based and vetted by medical professionals, together with three Emory College docs on the medical advisory board. There are classes, workouts, and content material that take about 10 minutes a day to do, with the hope of fixing conduct patterns over time. There’s additionally a group facet, the place customers can discuss immediately with one another and lend accountability and assist 24/7, and one-on-one teaching for anybody on the lookout for additional assist.
Thus far, Reframe has helped over a million individuals change their relationship with alcohol and has raised over $14 million in funds by means of three rounds, together with from David Cummings of Atlanta Ventures, who was the app’s first investor.
“We’ve discovered that the actual manner to assist somebody in the reduction of is to assist them not want alcohol within the first place. To do this, you could assist them handle their feelings and construct more healthy habits,” Pradeep says.
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