For when even rest stopped working.
Burnout takes the energy you would use to fix it. Therma asks for 60 seconds, no writing, no plan, no pep talk. Just one honest moment a day while you find your way back.
By Omar Rantisi, Founder of Therma2 min read
The problem
Burnout is not tiredness; sleep fixes tiredness. It is the deeper flatness where the things that used to restore you stop working, the smallest task costs double, and every plan for getting better asks for energy you do not have. The cruelest part is the fog: weeks blur, and you lose the ability to tell whether anything is shifting.
Standing still and sinking feel identical from inside. That is exactly when seeing your own weeks matters most and doing anything about it feels most impossible.
“Standing still and sinking feel the same from inside. The pattern can tell them apart.”
How Therma helps
So Therma asks for almost nothing. Sixty seconds. A mood ring, one gentle question, skip anything you want. The weekly reveal quietly lines the days against your sleep and shows what the fog hides: that Tuesday was lighter than Sunday, that the flat line has a slope, that something you did helped.
Not a program. Not a push. A small, steady way to see yourself while the capacity comes back.
What you get
- 1The 60-second check-in
Sixty seconds, no writing required. On the emptiest days, touching the mood ring is enough.
- 2The weekly reveal
A quiet weekly picture of mood against sleep. The reveal notices the small shifts the fog will not let you feel.
- 3Chat
For the days something needs saying and everyone available needs you fine. Chat listens. No advice, no fixing, no cheer.
Common questions
I do not have the energy for another app.
That is the constraint Therma was designed inside. Sixty seconds, one question, nothing to maintain, a streak that forgives. It is less effort than deciding what to watch.
Is Therma a treatment for burnout?
No. It does not diagnose or treat anything, and deep burnout often deserves professional attention. Therma is the daily noticing that sits underneath whatever else you do, and the picture that shows whether the weeks are shifting.
What if the check-in just says the same low thing every day?
Then it says it, and that is honest data. Flat days still build the picture, and the reveal is written to observe without judging. The day the line bends, you will have the before.
Omar Rantisi
Founder of Therma. UCLA Math + Sociology. Building tools for the space between silence and therapy. Not a therapist. Just someone who needed this to exist.
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