“Give up coffee” is the most repeated anxiety advice and one of the least personal. AnxietyMe does not tell you to give up anything. It adds up caffeine and sugar from what you eat, or from a nutrition app you already use, takes alcohol, a hangover and a skipped meal as one-tap triggers, and checks whether the days with more of them are your attack days.
In nine placebo-controlled studies of 237 people with panic disorder, 51% had a panic attack after a caffeine challenge and none after placebo.
Klevebrant et al., Gen Hosp Psychiatry 2022There is no single food rule that fits everyone with anxiety, so AnxietyMe never gives one. It compares your days with more and less of each thing and says whether it went with your attack days. If a pattern shows up, Insights suggests a week worth testing, then the app compares your days again.
Food you add in the app: a search of the USDA database, a barcode scan through Open Food Facts, or a photo of the meal that you check and correct before it is added. Or nutrition a food app already writes to Apple Health or Health Connect, which comes in on its own. Either way the day is summed: calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre, sugar, caffeine and a long list of vitamins and minerals, and every food you add is tagged for alcohol.
Caffeine and sugar high and low fire from the daily totals against a fixed line and your own two-week normal. What Happened then tests them, along with alcohol, hangover and skipped meals, against your attacks with the same statistics as sleep or weather, and What Strengthens You shows the eating days that turn up when you have no attack.
Food on the Log tab, and Diet under Monitor. The Diet screen holds the food search, barcode scanner and meal photo, today's log with caffeine and sugar, every nutrient, and the history with your attacks marked. Alcohol, hangover and skipped meal are tiles in Quick Log.
Whatever you can add, when you can, or a nutrition app that writes to Apple Health or Health Connect. A gap is just a day without food data. Adding food in the app is part of Premium; the one-tap triggers are free.
No. Log what you eat when you can, or let a nutrition app pass it in through Apple Health or Health Connect. The statistics work with whatever is there, and a gap is just a day without food data.
Searching, scanning and photographing food in the app is part of Premium. Nutrition that arrives from Apple Health or Health Connect comes in on the free app, and the one-tap triggers for alcohol, a hangover and a skipped meal are free.
No. It tells you whether caffeine went with your attack days, and if it did, suggests a week worth testing. What you do with that is yours, and your GP's if you want to ask.
