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Need-response introduction
- Steph Turner
- Dec 28, 2024
- 11 min read
Updated: Jan 7
Need-Response: A revolutionary solution to anxiety and depression
Video chapters
Problem 00:07
Solution 01:04
Mission 01:30
Vision 02:01
Inspiration 02:45
Founder 03:17
Power dynamics 04:29
Pain of unmet needs 05:10
Better than psychotherapy 06:07
Better than law 07:30
Toxic legalism 08:46
Good faith responsiveness 09:58
Hero's journey 10:43
What are the costs? 11:23
Potential applications 12:34
Urgency 13:11
Wellness resistance 14:19
You’re invited 15:48
Steps you can take 16:23
1. The problem 00:07
Rates of anxiety and depression among U.S. adults, especially younger folks, continues to rise, the latest federal data shows. Nearly 1 in every 5, or 18.2% of adults, reported anxiety issues in 2022. That’s up from 15.6% in 2019.” – US News and World Report
“The percentage of U.S. adults who report having been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime has reached 29.0%, nearly 10 percentage points higher than in 2015. The percentage of Americans who currently have or are being treated for depression has also increased, to 17.8%, up about seven points over the same period.” - Gallup
“Depression remains prevalent despite many treatment options. A new study suggests that this ‘treatment prevalence paradox’ is rooted in three key issues: misunderstandings about the nature of depression, overstated effectiveness of existing treatments, and poor accessibility to care.” – Mad in America
2. Solution 01:04
Only need-response can promise to identify and address the source of such rising rates of depression and anxiety: Unresolved needs beyond one’s control. Only need-response understands how you are naturally anxious and depressed when hindered from resolving your vulnerable needs. Only need-response establishes your needs as objective facts, occurring independent of your emotional awareness.
3. Mission 01:30
Need-response aims to identify, address and resolve those needs underserved by all other available options. Need-response equips you to address powerholders and social structures that hinder you from adequately resolving your powerful needs.
Which can leave you anxious and depressed. Need-response incentivizes the powerful to improve your wellbeing. Their professional reputation improves when their guided responsive-ness to your power-affected needs results in measurably better outcomes.
4. Vision 02:01
With your input, the Anankelogy Foundation seeks to create a viable need-responsive service within a year. You’re invited to follow along by listening to a podcast by the same name. You could help us test this new service, if you’re an innovator who’s eager to create what you yourself urgently need. And if you’re willing to risk trying something untested.
Together, we can test and refine it, to establish the marketability of this pioneering service within a year or two, refine it as we go along. To professionally serve clients who have nowhere else to turn.
To ultimately improve the wellness outcomes of all involved in this service.
No other available service accountably improves your wellbeing.
5. Inspiration 02:45
I was inspired to create need-response to fill the gap left wide open by the law and psychotherapy. Neither can properly appreciate our political differences or faithfully serve our justice needs. Both try to relieve your pain without fully addressing the needs causing you emotional pain like anxiety and depression.
The law can only do so much. Psychotherapy primarily looks inward. Politics remain a mess. Activism falls short. We cannot solve our specific problems from the level of generalizing that created them.
6. Founder 03:17
My name is Steph, a poster child with all that can go wrong with the law. I’m an asexual trans person who ended up on the lifetime sex offender registry for an assault that never occurred. The accuser could not risk being outed as a lesbian, so concocted a bizarre story of sexual abuse.
This all exploded during the sex abuse panic of the 80s and 90s. And when many in the public were convinced that LGBTQ+ adults were child recruiting predators, and when no corroborating evidence was necessary to convict by those who believed such things.
I wish I could reach out to her and affirm her same-sex attraction. I wish I could let her know I understand her desperation to protect herself from being rejected by her family, and to forgive her for ruining my life. But the law hinders such reconciliation and resolution. The law can only do so much.
Need-response prioritizes resolving personal needs over serving impersonal laws. When misapplied, the law does not solve needs but easily provokes more problems. Need-response restores the power of love, of honoring the needs of others as our own. Where careless laws hurt, need-response heals.
7. Power dynamics 04:29
Mostly, need-response levels the playing field between the powerful and relatively powerless.
Need-response addresses power dynamics.
Need-response serves clients who feel powerless in the face of powerholders who negatively impact their lives.
Need-response identifies each client as the RI: “Reporting Impactee” who is impacted by the relationship more than impacting it.
Need-response identifies powerholders as the AI: “Ascribed Impactor” who impacts the relationship more than impacted by it.
Need-response levels the playing field. Both are treated as humans with inflexible needs.
The more each side can resolve their needs, the more everyone’s wellness improves.
8. Pain of unmet needs 05:10
Individuals and systems of power don’t resolve needs simply because they wield significant influence. Or because you rely on them to ease your pain.
Despite their best intentions, those in positions of power can easily hurt you. Only by resolving your needs does your pain go away.
Neither the law nor psychotherapy effectively address these sources of your emotional pain of anxiety and depression. If only relieving your pain, they risk permitting your needs to painfully persist.
There is no such thing as pain or desire apart from unresolved needs. Pain is not the problem as much as the unmet needs your pain exists to report.
Only need-response recognizes how you only experience pain when your body warns you of some excess to remove. And you only experience desire when your body propels you to replenish something depleted. Only need-response offers to remove cause for your pain, like anxiety and depression.
9. Better than psychotherapy 06:07
Need-response goes further than psychotherapy when unpacking emotions. After identifying each affected feeling, need-response links it to your affected needs. Then distinguishes between what you can do about it and what you can't do about it.
Unlike psychotherapy's intent to help you feel better, need-response equips you to address those people and things limiting your ability to fully resolve such needs. What you can't personally do about your unmet needs then shifts into what others can do for you affected needs, and what you can do about theirs.
Only need-response recognizes how you only experience depression when your body warns you of a threat to your wellbeing. You only experience anxiety when your body warns you of a threat of something you sense you’re ill equipped to handle alone.
Only need-response recognizes how you only suffer addiction when unable to replenish what your body requires. So you crave whatever offers you some hope for relief from the natural pain of your unmet needs.
Only need-response investigates each source of your emotional pain. Only need-response equips you to speak truth to power in a way that incentivizes them to listen to those impacted.
Instead of trying to relieve your pain from unmet needs, as the legal process and psychotherapy do, need-response works to remove cause for your pain.
10. Better than law 07:30
Need-response inspires you to go beyond legal requirements to proactively support resolving the needs of others, to incentivize them to support resolving your needs.
The more each other’s needs resolve, the more you reduce or remove each other’s pain.
The law cannot remove your pain. When coldly applied, it can unnecessarily add to your pain.
While no one sits above the law, no law sits above the needs they exist to serve. Laws follow needs.
Need-response cuts to the chase by identifying the needs any cited law is expected to serve. And then examines how those needs are actually impacted by those in charge.
The more you put flexible laws ahead of your inflexible needs, the greater your risk for anxiety and depression.
The more you can prioritize your inflexible needs over flexible laws, the lower your risk for anxiety or depression, or for addictions.
I learned to put away my depression by removing threats to my purposeful living. My anxiety evaporated when learning how to handle traumatizing events like the wrongful conviction. I suffer no addictions as I promptly replenish the basics my body requires. All by keeping the role of norms and laws in their proper place.
Need-response seeks to do the same for you.
11. Toxic legalism 08:46
Need-response specializes in helping you identify a common yet overlooked source of your painful problems: toxic legalism.
Toxic legalism is where you put flexible social norms over your inflexible needs. It points to five factors trapping you in pain and despair.
1. Hyper-individuality. Where you blame yourself for things beyond your personal control.
2. Hyperrationality. Where you mask your vulnerabilities under the guard of reasonable sounding arguments.
3. Overgeneralizing. Where you cling to comforting generalities to the point you skip dealing with relevant specifics, which could liberate you from the pain you try to avoid.
4. Avoidance. Where you remain alienated from others in the vain pursuit of avoiding any further pain. Which actually traps you in more pain.
And 5. Adversarialism. Where you quickly oppose others with an oppositional stance, instead of engaging them to cultivate mutual understanding and potential support.
The legal process and psychotherapy are often guilty of these. Such toxic legalism fuels your anxiety and depression, and can feed your addictions as you struggle to cope with the pain.
12. Good faith responsiveness 09:58
Need-response counters all five of these toxic factors. It sharpens your ability to respond to the needs of others in good faith.
Need-response is nonadversarial. You exhaust all options of mutuality before taking any oppositional stance.
Need-response is engaging. You get to know each other’s affected needs, and explore what each can honestly do about them.
Need-response is nuanced. You delve into the specifics to resolve needs.
Need-response is boldly honest. You dig down deeper into how you actually experience your needs.
Need-response is holistic. You balance what you need with what other’s need.
Need-response takes you from the ordinary realm of toxic legalism into this extraordinary realm of greater responsiveness to needs.
13. Hero’s journey 10:43
You likely don’t even realize how you’re now trapped in the ordinary world, with your hand stuck in the monkey trap.
Need-response takes you on the hero’s journey from the ordinary world of quiet misery into the extraordinary world of liberation.
You go through 16 distinct steps on this empowering adventure to greater wellness. We craft a story to inspire the public how to create meaningful change. You keep private what you must.
After entering the extraordinary realm, we sharpen your skills to resolve needs. You return back to the ordinary world a new person, ready to resolve more needs, remove more pain, and improve wellness.
14. What are the costs? 11:23
Improving wellness is need-response’s bottom line. Providers only get fully paid if your wellness measurably improves. If your baseline of anxiety and depression actually improves.
Sessions occur online, one-on-one at first. The first session is free, as a trial period.
The process moves through four to five phases. You gain supporters as the process evolves.
Unlike the solo effort of psychotherapy as a private health cost, you attract a team of supporters, who champion your cause to speak truth to power. Your supporters benefit from your gains.
They share the costs of the service, as they invest in your wellness improvement journey. No insurance panels to impress. No retainer or expensive legal fees.
Along the way, you help powerholders to be more responsive to the needs they impact. You help them become better leaders by holding them accountable to your impacted wellness outcomes.
You potentially inspire some to mature as transformative leaders. You support them to alter the social structures to be more responsive to us all.
That’s the untapped potential of replacing adversarialism norms with mutual regard for each other’s needs.
15. Potential applications 12:34
Consider what this visionary service can do for you.
It could potentially solve the problem of political polarization.
It could potentially solve the problem of wrongful convictions of the innocent.
It could potentially solve the problem of source captured journalism.
It could potentially solve the problem of student debt and predatory loans.
It could potentially solve the problem of medical debt and unresponsive insurance.
It could potentially solve many problems undermining our failing institutions.
Or we can soldier on with our painful problems and rely more heavily on addictive pain coping methods.
16. Urgency 13:11
Let me be blunt. Without need-response or something like it, we’re all screwed. We must do better to respond to each other’s needs, before we slip further into the abyss of dismal despair.
We need fewer imposing laws and more grace to fulfill the demands of our existent laws. We need less convincing and more understanding. We need less intellectualizing and more love. It doesn’t take a genius to spread warmth with a smile.
Love is the answer, when defining love as honoring the needs of others as our healthier selves would have them honor our own needs.
Need-response rekindles our potential to be more loving to each other.
Only the professional service of need-response champions these traits in our sacred texts.
Only need-response specifically addresses the source of many folk’s anxiety and depression, by confronting impersonal power structures.
Only need-response dares to bring elites down to our level, as fellow human beings, to show them how we can improve their effectiveness, and then charge them for the privilege.
This merely skims the surface of what need-response could potentially become.
17. Wellness resistance 14:19
Yes, need-response radically departs from some of our established norms. It could easily alarm detractors. Those most invested in the unhealthy status quo may resist, and push back.
This vision easily provokes the defenses of those reliant on the familiar status quo. Those who benefit from keeping us pitted against each other, instead of working with each other, may pose a threat. And not even realize it.
It sounds so strange, so unlikely to work, and easy to dismiss. Perhaps you prefer to play it safe.
As a sacred misfit frequently targeted for not fitting into their imposing norms, like gender stereotypes, I am no stranger to violent pushback.
As someone spiritually compelled to transcend divisive norms to resolve needs, which is called a ‘transspirit’, I could not play it safe.
I continue to endure blowback for being so radically different.
Despite earning several college degrees, and having no other trouble with the law, I remain underemployed and poorly housed. Being wrongly listed as a sex offender left me recently homeless for a year. I will need to count upon others to help build this vision.
I’m like Nikola Tesla digging ditches, because Mr. Edison couldn’t appreciate his brilliance. Thomas Edison was too invested in direct current to give Tesla’s visionary alternative a chance.
But Westinghouse recognized and invested in Tesla’s vision for alternating current. We’re all better off for adopting Tesla’s vision.
18. You’re invited 15:48
Who will recognize and invest in this alternative to legal services and psychotherapy? Who with the means can help establish this vision for cultivating a world with less anxiety and less depression?
You could be among the most qualified to become its first service providers, called need-responders.
Consider this new visionary service as a better way to serve your clients. Consider its potential for you to earn more income. Consider its potential to boost your professional prestige.
19. Steps you can take 16:23
Read the full prospectus to learn more.
Go to AnankelogyFoundation.org and engage others taking interest in this new service.
Listen to the Need-Response podcast, starting Wednesday 30th of April 2025, and subscribe if you like what you hear.
You can follow for free, getting free progress updates in your inbox. And you can invest as little as $5 each month to help create this pioneering service.
Let us co-create what the world needs now. If we don’t, who will? Let us spread the love we all crave. If we don’t, who will?
Learn more about this new service of need-response by listening to the Need-Response podcast. Episodes each Wednesday, starting 30 April 2025.
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