Naryna Information

update Nov 2015: Naryna is no longer in business! Naryna is a CBT tool to capture your cognitive distortions. We aim to utilize the latest advancements in Data science and machine learning along with a little bit of crowdsourcing magic to automatically refute your negative thoughts and cognitive distortions. We also provide a depression tracking tool to keep a track of various aspects of depression over time. At the core Naryna is very simple. It allows you to record Dysfunctional thoughts and cognitive distortions and refute them. We wont get into the machine learning, crowdsourcing and data mining that goes behind the scenes but suffice to say these are what allow us to refute the cognitive distortions.What are those you ask? These are cornerstones of CBT. Please read the wikipedia page on the topic. Even better would be to read the book Feeling good by David Burns. You can buy it on amazon. Here is a short summary of Cognitive Distortions The Ten Forms of Self Defeating Thoughts 1. All or nothing - thinking 2. Overgeneralization 3. Mental filter 4. Discounting the positive 5. Jumping to conclusions 6. Magnification 7. Emotional reasoning 8. "Should statements" 9. Labeling 10. Personalization and blame