[StephenGrossman]

My medical insurance company, United Health, sent the following, presumably to all its subscribers:

We want to make it easier for you to ease stress and boost your mood. That’s why, as a UnitedHealthcare Community Plan member, you can use AbleTo’s Self Care app at no added cost.

The Self Care app gives you emotional health tools to help you feel better. Check out meditations, breathing exercises, videos, blogs and more. You ll get personalized content. And the Self Care app is flexible. Use it when and where you want to.

Daily mood tracking
Answer daily questions to record your current mood, find patterns and check your progressMeditation tools
Explore classic methods of relaxation like deep breathing and imagining something positive when you need themCollections
Build life skills with content, tools and resources for the stuff that matters most to you.

Personalized roadmap
Track your progress, set goals and make strides through weekly check-ups.

It’s amazingly similar to the views of Jean Moroney, Tal Tsfany, Alex Epstein’s Human Development Project, and, maybe, Gena Gorlin. Has somebody been reading them or Rand or,  more likely, is it a part of the current cognitive, life-affirmative, whole life, mind/body integration, life virtues psychology? Rand might approve. United Heath selfishly wants psychologically healthy customers for less costs. This is contra the virtually insane claim by some anti-capitalists that medical insurance is “deny, delay and depose,” as CEO murderer, Luigi Mangioni, said.

/sb

[LittleEd]

The concern with self and self benefit here is indeed encouraging.  Aside of the security concerns connected with running applications that record and catalog health conditions, the elevation and maintenance of one’s personal condition is something that would be attacked by the anti-self collection of orientations.  And here, such anti-self tendencies are at least ignored. 

(Rather than free phone apps – or phone apps one wrote oneself –  one could use pencil/paper or other analog alternatives.)

[StephenGrossman]

Re: Pete Jamison’s post 103812 of 5/31/25

the elevation and maintenance of one’s personal condition is something that would be attacked by the anti-self collection of orientations.

One  of the major Leftist publications  recently attacked the self-help view under cover of condemning a perversion of it.

one could use pencil/paper or other analog alternatives.

I’m currently reading Tal Tsfany’s, Secrets Of A Passionate Life. He has some excellent methods of identifying and acting on one’s rational passions. Perhaps his basic theme is being explicitly conscious of one’s life and happiness.

[BrianMcDaniel]

Re: Stephen Grossman’s post 103823 of 6/1/25

Can you tell us what article is attacking self-help? I’m curious. Lots of people criticize self-help books for promising more than they deliver, but I don’t see a lot of people criticizing the notion of self-help itself.

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