Medical Gaslighting App

Yes, Bearable is a freemium app and our subscription is optional.

With Bearable, you can track unlimited symptoms, treatments, medications, and triggers for free. You can also identify changes in your symptoms severity using weekly reports, timelines, calendars, and charts – all included in the free version of the Bearable app.

Bearable was designed so that people whose disposable income is affected by their health can still track and manage their health using the app for free. In fact, we’ve recently launched a sponsorship program that gifts free subscriptions to members of the Bearable community every month.

Symptom tracking helps combat medical gaslighting by giving you clear, objective evidence of what you’re experiencing—so doctors take your concerns seriously. Instead of relying on memory or vague descriptions, you’ll have concrete data that proves your symptoms are real, persistent, and worth investigating.

Creates a Record Doctors Can’t Ignore

Medical gaslighting often makes patients feel like they’re imagining things or exaggerating. But when you track your symptoms over time, you can show exactly when they started, how often they occur, and how severe they are. This kind of documented history makes it much harder for a doctor to dismiss your concerns as “just stress” or “not that bad.”

Reveals Patterns & Triggers

By logging your symptoms alongside lifestyle factors—like diet, sleep, medications, and activity levels—you can spot patterns. Maybe your pain worsens after certain foods, or your fatigue flares up after minimal exertion. Identifying these connections not only helps with self-advocacy but also provides your doctor with valuable clues for a diagnosis.

Makes Appointments More Productive

It’s easy to forget important details in a rushed doctor’s visit. Symptom tracking ensures you go in prepared, with a clear timeline of what’s been happening. Instead of struggling to remember when your headaches started or how often your dizziness occurs, you’ll have everything neatly logged—giving your doctor a full picture of your health.

Strengthens Your Case for Proper Testing & Treatment

Many people who experience medical gaslighting struggle to get tests, referrals, or treatments because their concerns are dismissed. When you have a symptom tracker showing persistent issues over weeks or months, you can push for further investigation. A doctor is far more likely to take action when presented with a consistent data record rather than anecdotal complaints.

Empowers You to Advocate for Yourself

Gaslighting thrives when patients feel uncertain about their own experiences. Symptom tracking validates your reality—reminding you that your symptoms are real and deserve attention. If a doctor refuses to listen, your records make it easier to seek a second opinion with confidence.

At the end of the day, symptom tracking puts the power back in your hands, ensuring that your voice—and your health—can’t be ignored.

The Bearable app helps prevent medical gaslighting by giving you hard evidence of your symptoms, treatments, and health patterns—so you can advocate for yourself with confidence. Here’s how:

Tracks Your Symptoms Over Time

Instead of relying on memory, Bearable lets you log your symptoms daily, noting their severity and frequency. This creates a clear timeline of your health, making it harder for doctors to dismiss your concerns as “just stress” or “all in your head.”

Creates Clear, Shareable Reports

Bearable organizes your data into easy-to-read charts and reports that you can bring to appointments. These summaries highlight symptom trends, triggers, and potential correlations with lifestyle factors—helping you make a strong case for further investigation or treatment.

Connects Symptoms to Triggers & Treatments

By tracking habits, diet, medications, and activities alongside symptoms, Bearable helps you identify patterns. This can provide solid evidence when you suspect a certain food, medication, or lifestyle factor is affecting your health, making it easier to push for the right diagnosis or treatment adjustments.

Helps You Prepare for Doctor’s Appointments

With all your health data in one place, you can walk into appointments prepared and confident. No more struggling to remember when your symptoms started or how they’ve changed over time—Bearable gives you a clear record to refer to, ensuring you don’t leave out important details.

Empowers You to Advocate for Yourself

Medical gaslighting thrives when patients feel unsure about their symptoms. Bearable helps you take control by giving you the proof you need to be taken seriously—whether it’s tracking your worsening fatigue, proving your migraines aren’t “just anxiety,” or showing that your symptoms aren’t improving with current treatments.

Your experience matters—and Bearable ensures your health journey is backed by real data, not just feelings.

Bearable stands out from other health tracking apps because it’s built specifically for people with complex, chronic conditions—the very people most at risk of medical gaslighting. While many apps focus on fitness, general wellness, or single-condition tracking, Bearable gives you a complete, customizable way to track your health and gather real evidence to advocate for yourself. Here’s why it’s better:

Fully Customizable Tracking

Most symptom trackers have rigid categories that might not reflect your unique experience. Bearable lets you track exactly what matters to you—from symptoms and triggers to medications, treatments, mood, and lifestyle factors. Whether you have multiple conditions or symptoms that don’t fit standard medical checklists, Bearable helps you create a personalized record that makes your case clearer to doctors.

Easy-to-Understand Reports & Insights

Many tracking apps collect data but don’t help you make sense of it. Bearable automatically generates clear, easy-to-read graphs and reports, showing symptom trends over time and potential correlations with factors like sleep, diet, and medication. These reports give you the hard evidence you need to push back when a doctor dismisses your concerns.

Connects Symptoms to Possible Causes

Unlike generic health trackers, Bearable doesn’t just log symptoms—it helps you spot patterns and triggers. If your pain spikes after certain foods, your fatigue worsens with a medication, or your dizziness follows poor sleep, Bearable highlights these connections. This makes it easier to advocate for testing or treatment changes, instead of being brushed off with “it’s just anxiety” or “there’s nothing wrong.”

Helps You Prepare for Appointments

Medical gaslighting often thrives in rushed doctor visits where patients struggle to remember details. Bearable keeps all your health data in one place, so you can walk into appointments prepared and confident. Instead of trying to recall when your symptoms started or how they’ve changed, you can pull up a clear record that doctors can’t dismiss.

Syncs with Health Data for Extra Proof

Bearable integrates with Apple Health, Google Fit, and Fitbit, allowing you to combine symptom tracking with objective health data like heart rate, activity levels, and sleep patterns. If a doctor doubts your fatigue or pain levels, you can back it up with data showing disrupted sleep, low energy levels, or abnormal vital signs.

Built for People Who Feel Dismissed

Bearable was created by people with chronic health issues, for people with chronic health issues. That means it’s designed with the understanding that medical gaslighting is real and that tracking your health shouldn’t be overwhelming. It’s simple, flexible, and focused on giving you control over your health story—so you can be taken seriously and get the care you deserve.

Bearable isn’t just a symptom tracker—it’s a tool for self-advocacy. When your health is questioned, Bearable helps you prove that your symptoms are real, consistent, and worth investigating.

Yes, one of the primary reasons we created Bearable was to make communication with your Doctor, Therapist, and Medical team easier.

Whilst it’s possible to export all of your data in .csv format, we’ve also heard from members of the Bearable community that they:

1. 1. Use the share button on certain reports to send doctors a specific report e.g. to share correlations from the Effect on Fatigue report.
   2. Screen grab  reports that don’t currently have a share button e.g. to share symptom trends from the Comparison graph or Timeline screen.
   3. Simply use the app during an appointment to answer questions on the spot. For example, by using the Timeline & Calendar screens to quickly lookup symptom frequency and severity for specific dates.

There are a number of ways in which Bearable protects the privacy and security of our member’s data. These include:

1. 1. GDPR Compliance. As a British company we’re compliant with EU data protection laws which are more protective of an individuals data rights than HIPAA. This also means that we do not have to comply with requests for data from US law enforcement.
      
      
   2. We use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to backup and secure your data. GCP is GDPR and CCPA compliant and is certified under major privacy and security standards including ISO 27001 and SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3.
      
      
   3. Your data is encrypted at rest using Google Cloud Platform services. This essentially means that your data is encrypted from your device all the way to the server. In addition to this, Google Cloud also encrypt the infrastructure, platform, and hardware that this data is stored on – so there are multiple layers of encryption protecting your data. These measures are used to protect your data from unauthorised access.
      
      
   4. We will never sell your data and this has been our philosophy since day one. Whilst other companies focus on revenue, our primary focus is to help people to understand and manage their health. This is the same reason we don’t show ads in the app and our only revenue stream is an optional subscription. 
      
      
   5. We collect as little Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as possible. The only information needed to create a Bearable account is your email address. That means no name, no home address, no credit card information, no biometrics, no birthdate, and nothing else that could be used to personally identify you directly or indirectly. The only instance in which phone number data may be collected is if you choose to create an account using your Facebook/Meta account.
      
      
   6. Most importantly, you have complete control of your data at all times and from within the app. From the settings screen, you’re able to delete your account and/or data at any time.

If you have any questions or concerns about your data privacy, please contact us at support@bearable.app