Am I seriously the only one? - thinking of uninstalling

I keep doing searches of the sub trying to see if I'm the only one who's deeply disappointed by this app and how little help it is for completing my goals, but the only thing anybody seems disappointed in is when their virtual pet has different likes than they have. Does nobody else experience having downloaded it partly to accomplish a specific goal only to find that the app doesn't give a s*** if they accomplish it or not, and in fact seems to have no problem whatsoever with them skipping it every single day for two weeks straight? I'm not talking about wanting the app to punish us or do anything like that, I get that they're trying to only be encouraging. But if I mark a goal skipped, apart from the fact that it's bizarre that the app responds with "hooray goals completed" (?!?!?!?!?!) — I even went back and checked, thinking maybe I had marked it complete by mistake, but no, it recognizes that I skipped it and somehow thinks it's a GOOD thing that for the 10th or 11th day in a row I couldn't make myself take a shower.

What I find disappointing about this is the fact that in no way does it offer up any kind of targeted reflection activities such as exploring possible sources of the difficulty or whatever. I could understand it if it were some specialized goal that I had created, but it isn't; it's a basic self-care goal that they programmed into the app. The closest they come is a question that asks why I marked the goal skipped, which, duh, because I didn't do it that day. What the hell else would I mark it? The snooze function doesn't really fit in either here or there for a daily goal when the whole point is to do it daily; I mean, either you did it in which case you mark completed or you didn't in which case you marked skip. Why is snooze even an option for daily goals?

Then there's the fact that it had this little virtual mini pet that I was within a couple of days of getting, which was going to be a nice little trophy of the fact that at least I was managing to check in with the app every day even if I wasn't making any progress on what I downloaded it to progress on, and I signed on February 1st to make a little more progress toward it only to find out that nope, starting over, they just want me to tell me about the new one that I can start from scratch on trying to earn. Wth? I'm not kidding, I was so pissed off that paradoxically, my birb Val got her energy at least once by me ranting for enough words about how the app sucks.

At first I experimented by trying one of the little journeys they had, which alternated breathing exercises on some days and a little exercise on other days and splashing cold water on your face on other days to give yourself energy. It didn't make the slightest difference to the app whether I did the stuff or didn't, so what was the point of that?

Now let's look at the fact that every single time that the user signs into the app, they're asked to rank, on a 1 to 5 scale (called different things each time or with different pictures each time), how they're feeling or how optimistic they're feeling or whatever. Again, it doesn't seem to make any difference to the app if every single solitary freaking day I'm at a 1 or a 2, only once in a blue moon a 3 and never any higher than that. So in effect, it just reinforced for me for the last month how sucky life was and how it not only wasn't getting better, but didn't show any signs of being likely to do so. In other words, instead of helping me improve my mood or find something to be optimistic or encouraged about, it actually made it worse by being self-reinforcing.

Then there's the weird thing that although it lets you add total strangers in the app by using their posted codes, it then wants you to write reflections about them and your memories of them when they're total strangers you never met whose code you got from this group for the fun of being able to send some warm fuzzies out to strangers. Why on earth, if they're going to let you add total strangers (which I thought was a perfectly nice idea) do they not provide some way for you to mark which ones you actually know so that they don't ask you unanswerable questions about the strangers?

Next, we have the anxiety quiz where even if you marked pretty high levels on nearly every question, you can still have the result tell you you're only experiencing "mild" anxiety. Having lived with my diagnosis of generalized anxiety for over 20 years, I don't think it's appropriate to call it mild simply because it isn't so severe that I curled up in a ball whimpering on the floor. They claim that quiz is based on some actual verifiable scale or something like that, don't remember the details, but if it is, then they need to look at some of the other accepted instruments because this one is way off.

🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦 I like the concept of this app. I like that they get that it would be extremely counterproductive for anything we did on our part or failed to do to result in any damage to our virtual pet. I don't want the app to punish or scold me in any way when I skip goals. I just want it to notice and try to help me DO something about it. If a person's only selected daily goal is "take a shower" and they continually mark it skipped, wouldn't you think at some point maybe the app would supply some insights on things that commonly are underlying the skipping of self-care to help the person try to identify what maybe they could address? I'd certainly think it would do that, and that would have been a lot better than me just getting more and more disgusted by both the physical aspects of regularly skipping the school and also with myself for the inability to do something so simple even when I've got an app specifically designed ( or at least, so they and everybody else said) to help people with this sort of thing.

I started in this app January 4th, and over a period of 4 weeks as I barely ever left the house or even got out of bed, at no point was the app any help and, as mentioned, if anything, it exacerbated the problem. To get through a day and know that the only thing accomplished was giving a virtual bird a different color scarf is not exactly something that makes a person struggling with depression and anxiety feel like there's been some forward movement. Hell, I discovered a few minutes ago that although I finally did take a shower for the first time in 12 days, because I did it on a dad didn't check in with the app I can't even mark the goal completed on the day it actually got done.

About the only upside is that after weeks of Finch observing helpfully that a given day was the "8th negative entry in a row about #insurance" I finally yesterday was able to go out and get the thing that actually helps me ... no thanks to Finch.

tl;dr anybody else finding that Finch doesn't really help, or is it just me?