It works. Until the week it doesn't.
Anxiety built half your resume, which is exactly why you never questioned it. Therma is a 60-second check-in that shows you the difference between drive and dread, in your own data.
By Omar Rantisi, Founder of Therma2 min read
The problem
High-functioning anxiety has a great disguise: results. The vigilance reads as conscientiousness, the 5am wake-ups as discipline, the inability to rest as ambition. Because it delivers, nobody questions it, least of all you.
But the same engine that powers the output is quietly billing the body, and without a record of how the weeks actually feel, you only find the invoice when it comes due all at once. Success is a convincing reason to never look.
“The anxiety got you here. The question is what it's charging.”
How Therma helps
Therma does not ask you to slow down. It asks for 60 seconds of honesty a day, then shows you the ledger: mood against sleep and HRV, week over week. The reveal makes the distinction you cannot make from inside, between the intensity that costs little and the dread that compounds.
Some patterns are permission to keep pushing. Others are the early version of the wall. Either way, you finally get to decide with data.
What you get
- 1The 60-second check-in
Sixty seconds. Even you have 60 seconds. One honest answer before the day gets reframed as fine.
- 2The weekly reveal
Mood against sleep and HRV, week over week. The reveal shows what the pace is actually costing, and when it genuinely is not.
- 3Chat
For the spiral that arrives at 11pm with tomorrow's agenda. Chat sits with it without telling you to relax.
Common questions
Will this tell me to do less?
No. Therma does not advise. It shows you your own pattern and leaves the conclusions to you. Plenty of reveals show a pace that is working; the point is knowing, not slowing.
How is this different from a meditation app?
It asks for less and shows more. No courses, no calm library, no daily 20 minutes. One honest data point a day, correlated with your body's numbers at the end of the week.
What if seeing the data makes the anxiety worse?
The reveal is written to observe, not alarm: what showed up, what it sat alongside, nothing more. Most people find the pattern quieter than the guessing. If what surfaces feels bigger than an app, a professional is the right next room.
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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