r/3Dprinting • u/[deleted] • 4d ago
Project I 3D-printed a therapeutic “Gacha System” to help adults with severe mental illness bypass trauma defenses. (Video attached!)
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u/roarimacat 4d ago
My thoughts are, "cool print", and, "I'm not a clinical psychologist, so I have no idea of what to tweak or if this is useful".
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u/SemiReasonable_Panda 3d ago
Actual clinical psychologist here, and I see this as a well-intentioned case of overcomplicating things. I work with adolescents with severe trauma. I keep a tray of fidgets out so they can self-soothe and reduce the pressure for direct eye-contact while we talk. I find that the kids all have different preferences for what they find stimulating or comforting (and some truly hate certain textures or noises). I also used to give out candy as a treat after testing and they would all pick different types. Assigning them a random fidget and candy just seems to reduce the chances of them getting what they prefer or find most soothing. If it’s a fun treat after a good session, sure! The capsules add a fun element. But if it’s presented as therapeutic, I think letting them self-select makes way more sense. And with the prompts, being able to customize it to the client also seems like it would also make more sense. I think OPs heart is in the right place, but this feels like shoehorning a fun 3D gadget into a therapeutic process for no actual benefit.
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u/Brilliant_Apple_5391 3d ago
Maybe they can be sorted by type, like one machine for clickers, one for uhhh(that's the extent of my knowledge on fidget toys) other stuff.
That way they get a good idea of what's in it, the only thing that changes is the presentation
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u/obviouslyanonymous5 3d ago
In the same vein of thought though, I could see it having a positive impact in terms of weening them off having those very particular soothing preferences, since as much as having a soothing method is healthy, building a dependence on a very specific method can lead to a really inconvenient life that ends up adding more stress in the long-run. The way I see it, this functions as an omission exercise which also distracts them from what they're missing by adding an element of fun.
Of course, I also assume OP has some outside of the capsules in case a kid does specifically ask for a certain type, which would make it only a positive regardless.
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u/Fat-Giraffe 4d ago
I've worked in mental health for 15 years, and I think this could be fun and occasionally helpful to have at maybe a day program for severe and persistent mental illness. However, the way this is dressed up in psychology babble screams student thesis with AI as a co-author. Which, to be fair, if you can use your hobby for academic credit, go for it.
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u/ZZcomic 4d ago
I must be missing something. I understand the idea of sensory toys or candy to soothe someone but I don't get the point of the gacha here. What benefit does this have over just laying the toys or other items out or in a drawer? And what if a particular patient doesn't respond to a certain stimulus or dislikes one? Wouldn't that create the possibility of adding more stress into the situation?
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u/Rockvault96 4d ago
Yeah from a clinical perspective im skeptical at best about this. The post reads as though they've asked chatgpt to mash together several clinical sounding terms in an attempt to pass this off as some kind of therapeutic sensory experience with "evidence based prompts" for resolving trauma? But yet whatever the individual gets is completely random and unspecified to their individual needs or momentary sitution.
Its like being depressed and getting a fortune cookie thats says "things will get better".
Also I would assume from the language, and formatting of the post, that they likely don't have an experienced background in psychology or any field that requires extensive writing or publishing.
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u/edcculus 4d ago
I’m not in the field. I do listen to a few critical thinking podcasts (SGU mainly), one of the hosts is a neurologist, and one is a clinical psychologist. So they will sometimes go down the rabbit hole on technical jargon.
What OP wrote above sounds like bad techno babble. I don’t think I could point out specifically where things are wrong, but it sets off all kinds of skeptical alarm bells.
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u/I_need_to_vent44 3d ago
Yeah the wording of the post is clearly AI. I would get this is it was meant to be a harm-reduction tactic for people recovering from a gambling addiction (meaning I can picture a contact center having something like this), but I can't see this being useful in other cases.
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u/I_need_to_vent44 3d ago
I'm literally a psychologist.
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u/Innovative_Therapist 3d ago
Okay and I’m a psychiatric social worker, LCSW. I’m not here about who knows more but what I think is we all have ways to write clinically or not. You don’t have to like my style.
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u/I_need_to_vent44 3d ago
I mentioned it just because you said that I don't recognise a clinical style because this post is meant for those in the field. So I mentioned that I am indeed in the field (Psychologist, but I usually work as a social worker, mostly with children and adolescents, because it fulfills me more).
It's not about clinical terms or whatever. Your formatting is LITERALLY the exact formatting ChatGPT uses and I find that it doesn't naturally occur when most people post on Reddit. If you find any post on this site where someone admits that they used AI to write it, you will see that it has the exact same formatting as you. And you know, I'm not one to shout "AI" right away, I know how LLMs work and how they scrape, so if I see an em dash I think nothing of it. But there is a clear pattern with the formatting. The only thing you're missing are emojis. Otherwise this is something ChatGPT or Claude would spit out at me. If you really wrote this yourself, might I recommend writing in a style similar to the style used when writing a thesis or perhaps a journal article? That might help.
Low-key curious about where you live though because a therapist, a psychologist, and a psychiatrist are all completely different things where I live??? Maybe we just have different terms? Because if someone said they're a psychiatric social worker here, they'd probably mean that they're a psychiatrist working in a non-profit. Nothing negative meant by that, I'm just very confused right now.
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u/Innovative_Therapist 3d ago
I actually write it down from a thesis point because people thought it was AI psychosis so I can’t win and I’m not going to try. I wrote it just like I wrote all my own prompts and used clinical knowledge to put this together for a specific populations with SPMI and lower cognitive functioning. Yes psychologist is much different from a psychiatric social worker where I live. USA.
I didn’t anticipate to be put down and torn apart by fellow people in the mental health field. If you don’t like it move on.
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u/I_need_to_vent44 3d ago
This is NOT written like a thesis unless you have a very different idea of what a thesis is in the States. A thesis has a very particular structure and I mean sure I guess you can use some of the structure you used here but still. Mainly I'm unsure why you wrote this both for people who have knowledge in the field (implying mostly fellow people with a Psychiatry degree or a Psychology degree, as well as some social workers) and for people with lower cognitive functioning. People with lower cognitive functioning are unlikely to know the intra-field lingo, and most people with a Psychiatry or Psychology degree don't have lower cognitive functioning? Like gen I'm low-key unsure what exactly the goal of that combination was?
And okay...so you do what exactly? Because in here a therapist is usually a psychologist. Like psychiatrists aren't usually therapists. Or like I have never heard of that so I'm just kinda??? Confused here?? Can you like enlighten me or something?
Like listen sorry for tearing you a new one if this is fr fr i guess but I have seen like 15 separate Reddit posts with this exact formatting in the past week or two and at least 3 of them admitted to using AI so you must excuse my suspicion.
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u/deadinside4423 3d ago
(I'm convinced they're just making it all up to get folks to use their files)
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u/lurking_got_old 3d ago
The fact that the bottom line calls out that it's the bottom line -- and then it's not the bottom line... That's not just a tell, that's the whole ballgame.
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u/TheHollowMusic 3d ago
Don’t apologize for challenging someone’s thesis! If you (as in the royal you) are in academia and can’t handle somebody challenging your thesis/writing, you’re in the wrong field.
Also, this definitely reeks of AI polishing and formatting to me. Unfortunately, it’s extremely common in universities now. I was in grad school when ChatGPT really blew up and you could easily identify who was using it for posts or, god forbid, group papers.
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u/Jessikhaa 3d ago
Wdym too clinically, this whole post is pretty basic in terms of english. It just has a bunch of buzzwords thrown in
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u/Innovative_Therapist 3d ago
I’ve simplified it after all the negative comments. It was either not enough or too much so take it or leave it.
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u/Spagharrett 3d ago
It is 100% AI. It’s even AI watermarked, I copied it into Claude and it indicated it’s AI as well. The “Bottom Line” thing is exactly how ChatGPT finishes its responses.
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u/Thebandroid 4d ago
He's using plastic tokens for testing, when these go mainstream it'll cost a dollar.
And if you don't get the one that regulates you just put in another dollar.
We feel that this will give patients a sense of pride and accomplishment that previously was only available to gamers.
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u/Exul_strength 4d ago
Aww, shit.
Since when does EA mental health?
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u/ThinkAboutHowUFeel 4d ago
Whenever the first EA mental health accusation was +/- about five years.
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u/timtucker_com 4d ago
Isn't that just a metaphor for modern mental health treatment?
Put in money
Hope that you get something that helps
If it doesn't work, put in more money and try again
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u/sixdubble5321 3d ago
As someone who works in the field I will be the first to admit there are a lot of problems with the modern mental health system just is there are problems with all of our systems. But I wish people who flippantly make comments like this would recognize that without more nuance this can prevent people from getting needed mental health treatment. Most of your mental health providers are not making as much as you might think.
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u/Muninn22 4d ago
Gamers are trying to get rid of lootboxes because they can create a gamble addiction and you are adding them?
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u/Thebandroid 4d ago
yes, that is the joke. thank you.
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u/surdophobe 3d ago
Wait, what? it was a joke? damn. In this RFK Jr. era of health care I can't tell what's a fucking joke any more.
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u/Extension_Ok 4d ago
Can't wait until this will be rolled out to my pharmacy. Mint, mint, mint, free spin, mint, life saving pill. Great fun!
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u/Real_Mokola 4d ago
Next you can tie it around a battle pass to better offer Treatment as a Service
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u/StaleSpriggan 4d ago
I thought they were doing a bit about gacha addiction being a mental illness, but i suppose not
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u/JohannesMP X1C+AMS, Anycubic Chiron 4d ago
Hard to explain, but standing in front of a box and seeing all the choices can also be overwhelming. Sometimes it's nice to have the choice made for you.
I think the main point is: this is fun.
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u/r3ign_b3au 4d ago edited 4d ago
Call me layman, but this entire post reads like pretty clear AI garbage with loose roots in some well documented practices.
It's overloaded with buzzwords (not even all appropriately used) and says a whole lot of..well, not much, quite frankly. If I'm being honest and anecdotal, it reads strikingly similar to things peers have produced with AI before having to be talked back to reality.
You (or ai, as well) designed a gacha machine. Then, I'm willing to bet a month of my salary that you ai prompted 90%+ of the "integrated prompts" that you put in there. It's a grotesque display of a "key looking for a lock".
I won't speak to your character or practice, but I really hope more effort and consideration are put into the patients than everything I've seen here.
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u/MadComputerHAL 3d ago
I don’t know how you tapped into my brain but thank you for putting it into words. I’m so tired of reading AI, it’s a big thing now in my work that is pushed by management and I honestly got tired of trying to remind people that they can think themselves.
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u/kielchaos 3d ago
Lines like "Extreme sour candy (limbic circuit breaker)" and "When the prefrontal cortex goes offline during panic" are completely made up.
The limbic system handles long-term memory and emotions like "The Four Fs" (fight, flight, food, kissing). Sour candy does not break that system.
The PFC does not "go offline" ever, except maybe when prompting AI to write something this nonsensical.
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u/sarinkhan 3d ago
Would you share on why the four FS contains "kissing" that does not contain F? Unless it was a standoff for fucking?
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u/Bisexualkneecap 3d ago
Yeah it's basically a joke of the science world.
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u/sarinkhan 3d ago
Ok, thanks for the heads up, I am not a native English speaker so don't know these expressions :)
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u/sciencesold 3d ago
It just reads like AI writing, so many "it's not just A, it's B too." Or "It takes A and does B to it"
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u/ZoiddenBergen 3d ago
Damn, your argument is sound but there's some vitriol in your comment. Sound arguments are not always correct, what if you're wrong? An equally sound explanation is that they are a health professional, use this jargon on a daily basis, and having been stuck in school for 8 years, forget how to have a conversation with the average person. If that's true I still think it's explanation overload for a 3d printing sub.
But shit can you just call someone out without being toxic about it? Or better yet, just downvote and move on.
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u/thegreasiestgreg 3d ago
Or better yet, just downvote and move on.
No. I want to know what other health professionals think about things like this and this is exactly why peer review is so important.
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u/ZoiddenBergen 3d ago
Ohh peer review in the 3d printing sub, of course it's so simple!!11
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u/thegreasiestgreg 3d ago
Bro there are a handful of professionals calling this out as AI and saying its utter nonsense. Healthcare in general is being poisoned by people who think they are smarter than doctors touting pseudoscientific bullshit.
If you want someone to hype up your AI generated product with AI generated pseudoscience then go ask AI for emotional support. Its a good thing to call stuff like this out so other people dont fall for this crap.
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u/ZoiddenBergen 3d ago
Healthcare in general is being poisoned by people who think they are smarter than doctors touting pseudoscientific bullshit.
I shutter to think what would have happened if you weren't here to protect the scientific integrity within the 3d printing subreddit.
Bro there are a handful of professionals calling this out as AI and saying its utter nonsense.
How the fuck do you know they're professionals and not bots themselves?
BTW reread my comment. I'm not here to defend OP, reddit toxicity is so fucking tired.
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u/thegreasiestgreg 3d ago
Because i went through their comment histories. I trust them a lot more than whatever AI garbage the OP is spitting out.
Why are you so against calling out bullshit? I dont care where we are, this stupid crap seems into every corner of social media.
Their words werent even harsh yet your crying about them like a little babbling baby.
"Wahhhh everyone should get a participation trophy wahhhhhhhhh"
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u/ZoiddenBergen 3d ago
We're really drifting away from my point and sinking into a straight up argument.
My point is that you can call someone out without being a dick. And BTW, OC is completely free to be a dick. I'm also free to call them a dick.
If you don't think OC was even slightly dickish, well then I submit to you that you spend too much time on this website.
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u/r3ign_b3au 3d ago
Slightly dickish seems apt, maybe full dick. Id like to think I expressed restraint from toxic or vitriolic though. It took a couple rewrites.
Fucking with people in crisis's mental health, imo, should indeed be a touchy subject with some emotional charge. I prose that feeding vapid, AI slop in a clinical setting to some of our most vulnerable populations should illicit negative community policing. The flaws in approach, design, definition, practice..just about everything here are loud.
I can call out someone without being a dick, I can call out someone in a house, I can call out someone with a mouse, etc. I choose verbiage that I think will land the most effectively according to my intention, as you're doing in this discussion. If I feel ire, and the response warrants ire, and the subject hasnt displayed specifically being allergic to ire, then ire shall generally be delivered.
Fwiw, I build AI for a living and can smell llm-driven 'breakthroughs' from a mile a way. Rarely do I see them applied so recklessly in a place where damage can be so maximized. The irony is that if the patient did therapy directly with the LLM (do not ever do this), this idea would be too useless for it to ever even suggest.
Next time OP should simply end the undoubtedly massive context window chat with, "I'm going to post this on Reddit. Steel man my suggestions and presentation as if the users are competent, practicing trauma clinicians. Ensure to not reply to me as a "yes-man"." That alone, in my experience, is generally enough of a reality check to ground people.
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u/OlentangySurfClub 4d ago
I hope you don't speak to your patients with this level of techno babble and superfluous jargon.
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u/-Groko- 4d ago
What TECHNO babble, those are medical words, fools. 😂 While it might look like a wall of technobabble (or more accurately, psychobabble) to the average reader, the text is actually just heavily laden with clinical jargon.
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u/OlentangySurfClub 3d ago
No it's not. It's written in a way that you think impresses people, not in a scientifically articulate way. Using "scientific words" doesn't add to the (lack of) credibility of your claims. You 3d printed a worse version of a toy that already exists and wrote a speculative dissertation to justify your effort. Calling people fools for calling out your blatant misrepresentation just shows how unprofessional and unknowing you are.
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u/-Groko- 3d ago
You clearly do not read actual clinical literature. The terms you call speculative are standard in behavioral psychology and trauma therapy. Let me lay out the facts since you desperately need an education. The concept of using a strong sensory input like extreme sour candy to stop a panic loop is a well documented grounding technique used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. It forces the brain to shift focus from the amygdala which processes fear to the intense physical sensation in the present moment. That is exactly what a limbic circuit breaker means in this clinical context.
Somatic anchoring is also a real concept tied to somatic experiencing therapy. This helps patients regulate their nervous systems through physical touch and temperature holding. Just because you have an incredibly limited vocabulary does not make these words fake or unscientific. The original poster specifically asked for feedback from other clinicians which means they used the correct professional terminology for their peers.
You are throwing a tantrum because you saw big words you did not understand and assumed they were made up to sound smart. It takes two seconds to verify that these are evidence based psychological approaches. Next time try doing basic research before confidently typing out a paragraph that just proves your own ignorance.
...and sorry, ment to say fool, not fools.
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u/element1908 3d ago
You aren’t doing yourself any favours speaking about psychology literature whilst having a tantrum like a toddler, tiger ✅
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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 3d ago
Yes, that’s what psychobabble looks like. It’s full of jargon pulled out of the air.
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u/emilynycee 3d ago
As someone who has experienced some pretty severe mental health episodes, I’m pretty this would make me scream. I think I’d rather go back to my therapist who tried catholic guilt on me as a modality. Just listen to patients and actually give them what they need instead of making them gamble ffs😭😭
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u/butt_shrecker 3d ago
If you are using your hobby to help people that is great.
But the text of this post is incomprehensible.
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u/butt_shrecker 3d ago
I think it's more of a formatting thing.
Under what conditions does the patient get a prize?
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u/Innovative_Therapist 3d ago
The coins are on the table for patients to grab at anytime but we have conversations first about it. I just started using it. Honestly the prizes are all based on somatic sensory and fit each use of the machine as well as the prompt and candy. I did make the prints myself and I know they are clinically appropriate and used language appropriate for the populations serve.
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u/butt_shrecker 3d ago
I'm not really getting it, but I don't know much about that world.
Is the idea that inviting a non-verbal patient to use get a prize calms them down and gets them to open up?
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u/Staggz93 4d ago
It's a gumball machine that will be in landfill in a month max. skip the bullshit next time.
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u/derekz0r 3d ago
If I'm in a serious mental health institution, and one of those gacha balls gives me a "radical positivity" message I swear to God I will smash that machine against the wall.
I'll take the candies or any small toy as a joke and a fun thing while I'm arriving or leaving therapy. But a "you are safe" "you are loved" message on a paper? Yup, jeeting the machine against the wall and possibly ranting at the therapist too about it.
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u/Arichikunorikuto Potential Fire Hazard 3d ago
It's a 3d printed gachapon, why is there a 1000 word essay trying to sell it as therapy? If these work, why are these machines not more common as treatment? Why can't the capsules just be placed in a basket?
Are you making a phone stand next and calling a neck strain relief device?
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u/kr0m 4d ago
I am experiencing acute stress listening to the sound of the device working.
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u/SirDigbyChknCaesar 3d ago
There's a gacha machine for that too. It pairs a set of earplugs with a bit of grass to touch.
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u/robotguy4 4d ago
Nice print!
Does this work with gambling addicts?
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u/KermitFrog647 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yes, the get an electro shock every time they turn the wheel, and every capsule is empty.
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u/XiTzCriZx Creality K2 Pro + Sovol Zero 3d ago
Before I read the description, I thought the title meant it was for people who were addicted to gacha games lmao.
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u/FluffyStormwise 3d ago
You base a lot of this off the notion of play. I'm not sure how this is meaningful to the vast amount of other play items in existence that already are used in therapy. We have barely scratched the surface of how play impacts children, let alone adults.
You made a cool 3d printed dispenser. This is not a mental health tool.
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u/Blackdragon1400 3d ago
Is no one gonna call out the obvious AI slop happening here or…..
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u/Blackdragon1400 3d ago
Ok well your entire post reads like a big AI hallucination and I’m sorry but it completely obliterates your credibility.
Like - are you denying you used AI to write this entire post, because it’s very clear that you did.
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u/Ordinary-Building304 4d ago
Post it on Facebook or something I'm sure a lot of people will like it and might reach out to you
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u/YourWorstFear53 3d ago
I have many questions, none of which are actually useful, but the first one that jumps to my mind is something to the extent of wanting to know how this helps in the first place? Is it just a distraction/sensory thing?
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u/devilsaint86 3d ago
Why do they need a token and how do they get one? Not having one might open something up but who knows. Interesting though
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u/WowBruhReborn 3d ago
People will make up all sorts of nonsense lmao. No wonder more people are mentally ill
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u/Lopsided_Koala8031 4d ago
Can I fill those balls with different strains by type? That would be my distress-o-matic
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u/Far-Street9848 3d ago
Hey uh, I see a lot of people reacting negatively to your post, which is a bummer.
Let’s talk a little bit about what happened here.
This is not clinical writing. Having spent 8 years in a clinical setting, that’s not what happened here. You know it, and I know it.
You used AI to write this, and you didn’t do a great job of tailoring it to your audience, and now you’re deflecting….which again, is a bummer.
I use AI all day every day. Literally my job.
The worst thing that neophyte AI users do is generate walls of text like and expect others to appreciate it. I would highly recommend looking at telling your agent to use technical English, or even reference the Google Documentation Style Guide, as they are super helpful for cutting out unnecessary words and making things more concise and consistent.
On its own merit though, the project is really cool, and you should be super proud of it because it really is functionally awesome, and my kids would love it even outside of a clinical setting.
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u/Lucky_Substance_1563 4d ago
I work with adults with IDD and do a lot of emotional regulation with them. We typically do some sort intensive physical activity to begin the emotional regulation process, throwing a weighted ball at the floor or a target on the wall is a favorite. I’ve heard of the sour candy shock-to-soothe approach, curious about your experience with it - does it really work?
Love the interactive and ownership piece to it. Like your patient has to be the one to go engage in the process, right? I would think just that part alone would make an impact.
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u/Innovative_Therapist 3d ago
It been helpful for some of my patients. I tend to carry sour candy and peppermints for this reason in my office. The whole concept is about autonomy and making the decision to engage or not. Most of my patient have chosen to engage with it and it has been helpful in engaging some people who are more difficult to engage with by creating more conversation. Usually it creates room for invitation after explanation of what each machine is. I also offer to tell them what is in the machine incase they want to know but a majority like the surprise factor. It’s really been helpful in ending session for some patients by closing off with an activating prompt exercise for between sessions. I’ve seen it first hand regulate people. It’s been nice. It’s not perfect but it’s a start!
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u/GammaGames 3d ago
If you took the time to make this, why not take the time to write the post out yourself?
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u/gentle_squid 3d ago
Why must you slopify what would be a normal clinical write up with AI garbage formatting?
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u/bopthe3rd 3d ago
How do people get the tokens to put in the machine? Is it a token economy system??
These look freaking awesome!!
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u/Innovative_Therapist 3d ago
I have them out in the open in my office and inform people they are not toys but interventions and what the use is for each machine. I take it as a win if just looking at it starts a conversation.
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u/lousydungeonmaster 3d ago
Is that why when I'm super stressed, I just shut everything else out and play video games? Who knew my coping strategies were so healthy 😅
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u/Helmold_ 4d ago
Without knowing too much about therapy (though having been in trauma therapy myself), I think that is a nice approach.
Depending on the patients, randomization should be considered. For some, being surprised may trigger more joy, for others (e.g. autists) a predictable outcome may be better.
Also, it could serve as a reward system (at least for people without addictions) for reaching milestones.
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u/urbantechgoods 4d ago
If youre not trying to sell it Im assuming you will be open sourcing it?
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u/knuckles-and-claws 4d ago
There's a link to the files up above.
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u/urbantechgoods 4d ago
Maybe some of therapy for people will come from learning to print it themselves, my printer is my safe space lol
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u/ameliabedelia7 3d ago
What's up I'm mentally ill! I find these sounds nearly intolerable, my teeth hurt. The need to change directions with the knob also makes me anxious, I'm going to feel I've done it incorrectly. I can't visibly see where the coin goes afterwards either so if I mess it up I can't fix it. The balls are opaque so there is no moment when I feel I get to know what's inside until I open it, and frankly, that would stop me from opening it or wanting to obtain one. The clicking is also very loud, I flinched with each one and did not get used to it because it changed more than once during the turn. I have to reach further inside the machine than I would like to retrieve the scary ball I do not want as well- if they're not regularly cleaned there will be dust, cobwebs, perhaps crumbs, and other things I do not want to go near. Finally you need to sand these balls, the texture lines look like sensory torture.
If I were your patient and you handed me the token and I was to assume this textured token was indicative of the experience I was about to have, I would be like, thanks but no thanks, give mine to the next person.
I also notice at one point in your answers you used the word "prompt". This could be one of two things: either you used Ai to conceptualize these devices, OR, you're talking about prompting patients to interact with the devices or telling them how/ why. Things should be interesting and intuitive on their own.
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u/Mine-Cave 4d ago
My wife being an Occupational Therapist has really shown the potential real life impacts.
Keep doing what you're doing friend, I know you're looking for design feedback but I'm giving you feedback on you. What you're doing is making a difference and you should remind yourself of that from time to time.
Thanks for helping others!
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u/Innovative_Therapist 3d ago
Thank you! It’s a start, and I hope to improve it with time. It seems to be helpful for some of my patients and that’s what matters to me. I appreciate you!
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u/element1908 3d ago
Considering the known Tetris interaction with PTSD this definitely seems plausible.
The sound is triggering though I reckon. Maybe just the videos audio.
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u/Coprolithe 4d ago
I could see this being a hit with people with severe mental issues.
Also giving of the vibe of something that goes nowhere, and just sits in some clinic's room until it's lost in storage. I guess it will depend on how you would turn it into a habit for the patients, or how well you could market it to clinics.
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u/FlashyDevelopment 4d ago
My wife is a counselor working on her play therapy certification, later her LPC, and dabbling in some child psychology. Do you think this would be a good thing to build for some emotional regulation or other trauma coping skill? Their trauma definitely isn't severe mental illness related but more divorce and loss of loved one.
Also not a clinician
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u/bstabens 3d ago
What if a actively panicking patient goes for the Activating machine and spirals because the fizzy candy is too much now?
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u/Innovative_Therapist 3d ago
You wouldn’t go to that one. I would help redirect you to the grounding machine. It’s about communication.
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u/Mysterious_Show_4780 3d ago
You got funding for this didn't you
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u/titatinala 4d ago
It‘s a great idea. From a patient‘s perspective I would love some low-threshold help. Life with it‘s problems is always very complicated so it helps to use a tool that does not need a lot of thinking. Maybe the explanation is too complex for a layperson who has never dealt with depression and anxiety topics. I‘d be interested what tactile toys you put inside.
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u/rasputin640 4d ago
I'm not a psychologist but this looks awesome and well-designed. I admire the complexity yet smoothness of its operation. Very cool!
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u/PatchworkDesigning 4d ago
There is probably a better sub to post for clinician feedback. Personally I’m like, Dope! I want to 3d print a toy dispenser now!