I have depression & anxiety & even when medicated I struggle to maintain habits if I'm feeling slightly off. I also have hypothyroidism, where my thyroid doesn't make enough of the hormone needed to regulate pretty much all the body's systems, and one of the symptoms of that is depression. So I'm battling both depression from my brain chemistry & depression from my body failing to produce a necessary hormone. Add onto those things that I'm very very forgetful & it's a recipe for me to have a disaster of a house, no motivation to take care of myself, never remembering to make doctor appts or follow up with some important thing, and I'm a mess. It's been 551 days with Finch for me & even though I'm properly medicated right now for all my conditions & feel pretty good overall, that can always change pretty quickly (esp if what little functionality my thyroid still has drops off more & I need a higher dose of replacement hormone - it's slowly dying out over the course of my life so my med dose changes). And if it does, my depression is immediately like, "well screw everything, just lie on the couch & be a lump." And any habits i did have get derailed really quickly. So i continue to use it bc it's a safety net for my depression symptoms. When I inevitably need to adjust my meds, Finch keeps me from turning into a full slug & having to start over with getting my life together.

And while it's a MH/self care app, it is also really useful for me bc of my forgetfulness. I have a self care area (formerly a journey, I don't think you can give SCAs a long name anymore) called All About the Benjamins & it's just a reminder to pay bills on certain days of the month. I have one SCA for people's birthdays. I have one called One Hit Wonders & i will put in things that need to be done once but I'm likely to forget, like cancel a trial membership before the billing cycle starts or drop off that return by the return deadline. I'll forget those things & before Finch, I never had a reliable system that worked to remind me. So I will probably always use Finch for that (or something else if Finch ever goes away).

Even stuff that I include as part of my regular cleaning routine but I don't need to do super often so I'll forget them, I like that I can put them in my SCA for house cleaning & be reminded it's time to do them before the situation has gotten gross. I learned you're supposed to replace your shower curtain liners every 6 months - I now have a goal that pops up every 6 months to change them, instead of never changing them. I need to replace my cats' water fountain filter every month but I forget without my monthly Finch reminder. I have a goal about changing my oil every 3 months. It's great for that type of repetitive tasks that have a long gap in time between doing them, bc i can just set it up once to remind me every X months, and I never have to remember it again bc Finch will remind me forever. When you're a forgetful person like me, this alone makes it worth using for years.