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ColdJay64 OP t1_itlzp0t wrote

Reply to comment by OptimusSublime in Police had incident free night after Phillies won NL pennant by ColdJay64

Why? This is exactly why psychologists say that Citizen isn’t healthy and creates anxiety.

https://www.mic.com/life/the-citizen-app-is-a-relentless-anxiety-trigger-18790347/amp

““If you have this constant hypervigilance, that your nervous system has to have because something bad is [seemingly] always happening, that’s problematic for anxiety,” says Elizabeth Cohen, a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating people with anxiety disorders, commenting on apps like Citizen. “It’s totally overestimating the probability of things.””

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OptimusSublime t1_itm0prc wrote

Maybe I overestimated how often I checked, it was like twice, honestly. And I have a healthy respect for the app, I have seen those studies, and it doesn't impact me nearly as much as I am told it should. 99% of the time the things that posted are so far away as to be meaningless to me, and the rest of the time its funny shit like someone was seen with a rake or something like that. There have been instances where I have heard gunshots nearby and checked the app for the express purpose of chatting with other people about it and to get more info if and when it becomes available. I'm not burying my face in the app and hyperventilating about every single push notification.

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sn0m0ns t1_itmo09z wrote

Depends on which neighborhood you live in. It's actually pretty useful if you have people in your neighborhood getting robbed at gunpoint right when you're about to go walk your dog.

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