Struggling to get to sleep, with waking up at night, or feeling constantly tired? You’re not imagining it. Sleep struggles often come from the same root: a lack of emotional clarity.
Verenigma helps you understand and regulate emotions. When you don’t know what you’re feeling, everything gets harder—your reactions, your sleep, even how you eat or respond to others. Verenigma helps you label and understand your emotions, so you feel more balanced, less reactive, and finally get the rest and relief you’ve been missing.
Our ADHD and AuDHD trials (often with RSD) with over 220 users reported that Verenigma helps those struggling:
✔ Average 37% improvement in emotional regulation
✔ 47% of users reported improved sleep
✔ 58% of users experienced a decrease in daytime fatigue
Showing that emotional clarity enhances physical energy.
✔ 68% of users experienced an improvement in emotional regulation
Leading to better mood, resilience, and decision-making.
✔ 74% of users experienced a decrease in depressive symptoms
Our diagram (pictured) highlights how these factors overlap, creating unique challenges for each person. Verenigma helps you recognise and regulate emotions, no matter where you fall on the spectrum of experiences.
Emotions can feel overwhelming, unpredictable, or hard to identify. This is known as alexithymia—difficulty recognising and expressing feelings—which can lead to shutdowns, meltdowns, and emotional exhaustion.
💡 43% of people with ADHD have alexithymia.
People experiencing these conditions are far more likely to face emotional dysregulation, which can show up in many ways—difficulty focusing, stress-driven eating, heightened anxiety, or trouble calming down.
✔ Improved relationships & communication
Say goodbye to misunderstandings and emotional frustration.
This diagram illustrates how emotional dysregulation connects to depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and fatigue, with overlapping challenges like inattention, hyperarousal, emotional confusion, and sleep difficulties. Many people experience a mix of these symptoms, making emotional regulation a key factor in improving overall well-being.
This chart shows how users who recorded more voice notes with Verenigma experienced a reduction in their PSQI sleep duration score.
That means they were sleeping longer—a sign of healthier, more restorative rest.
Users also saw a reduction in PSQI sleep latency (how long it took them to get to sleep) and sleep difficulty, getting to and staying asleep.
By helping you process emotions throughout the day, Verenigma allows your mind to wind down more easily at night, reducing racing thoughts and emotional tension that can keep you awake.
The takeaway? The more consistently you use affect labeling, the better your sleep can become.
Poor sleep and emotional dysregulation go hand in hand—when emotions feel unbalanced, falling asleep, staying asleep, and feeling rested become harder. Stress, unprocessed emotions, and mental fatigue keep your brain in overdrive, making it difficult to recharge.
By improving emotional regulation, you create the conditions for better sleep—reducing nighttime restlessness, improving recovery, and waking up feeling more in control. Verenigma helps you track and understand these patterns, so you can break the cycle and build a healthier, more balanced routine.
Alexithymia is common in ADHD, RSD, PTSD, and AuDHD, making emotional regulation even harder. It can lead to difficulty understanding your own emotions and stress, which makes getting to sleep difficult and lowers sleep quality
Take the TAS-DIF test below to see if alexithymia is affecting you.
ADHD isn’t just about attention—it’s about how emotions feel and how they’re managed. Many people with ADHD experience stronger, faster emotional responses and struggle with regulating them. This can lead to frustration, overwhelm, and mental exhaustion, making focus, motivation, and even sleep harder to maintain.
When emotions feel out of control, it’s easy to get stuck in cycles of stress, distraction, and fatigue. Emotional regulation isn’t just about “handling feelings”—it’s about creating the stability that allows your mind to focus, rest, and reset.
Verenigma helps you track and label emotions, making them easier to process. By improving emotional clarity, you’d feel more in control, less drained, and better able to focus on what matters—without emotional dysregulation pulling you off course.
Struggling to fall asleep, stay asleep, or wake up feeling rested? Poor sleep isn’t just about bedtime—it’s often the result of unprocessed emotions and mental overload that keep your brain in high alert.
When emotional regulation is out of balance, stress builds up, your thoughts race, and your body struggles to relax—making quality sleep harder to reach.
Verenigma helps you recognise, label, and process emotions throughout the day, so your mind can slow down at night. By improving emotional clarity, you can sleep more easily, rest more deeply, and wake up feeling truly restored.
Quinton, founder of Verenigma talks the benefits of Verenigma's affect labeling for emotional identification and better regulation.
Struggling to understand or express emotions? Alexithymia—difficulty identifying and describing feelings—is more common than you might think. It’s closely linked to ADHD, AuDHD, RSD, autism, PTSD, fatigue, and emotional eating, making emotional regulation harder and affecting everything from decision-making to relationships.
By recognizing how alexithymia impacts you, you can start to regain clarity and control. Take the alexithymia test below to see where you stand.
Take the Alexithymia TestStruggling with poor sleep, emotional overwhelm, or feeling disconnected from your emotions? It’s not just in your head—it’s part of a cycle that links emotional regulation, sleep quality, and alexithymia (difficulty identifying emotions). When one suffers, the rest follow.
Here’s how the cycle works—and how breaking it can help you sleep better, feel better, and regain control.
1️⃣ Emotional Regulation & Processing
Your brain needs to process emotions to function properly. But if emotional regulation is weak, or you struggle to recognise your feelings, stress builds up—leading to overthinking, emotional suppression, and a body stuck in high alert.
2️⃣ How This Affects Your Sleep
When emotions go unprocessed, your brain stays hyperactive, making it harder to fall asleep, stay asleep, or feel rested. Studies show alexithymia is linked to insomnia, restless sleep, and increased nighttime stress. Without proper emotional processing, your sleep suffers.
3️⃣ The Role of Sleep in Emotional Clarity
Good sleep reduces emotional reactivity and helps your brain make sense of what you’re feeling. But when sleep is disrupted, your ability to regulate emotions drops—leading to more stress, more emotional overwhelm, and even more difficulty understanding your own feelings.
4️⃣ The Cycle Continues… Unless You Break It
When emotional dysregulation and poor sleep reinforce each other, it creates a downward spiral:
🔄 Stress & emotional confusion → Poor sleep → Worse emotional regulation → Even worse sleep
The good news? You can reset this cycle by improving emotional clarity. Affect labeling (naming emotions), structured emotional reflection, and cognitive reappraisal all help break the stress-sleep cycle. When emotions feel clearer, your brain can relax, making sleep easier and more restorative.
Verenigma helps you track, label, and regulate emotions in real time, improving emotional clarity and supporting better sleep—so you wake up feeling refreshed, focused, and in control.
👉 Start improving your emotional clarity today and experience better sleep.
You’ll know what you’re feeling.
Our AI helps label and track emotions, so you can finally recognise patterns and break the cycle of emotional confusion.
You’ll sleep better.
When your emotions aren’t running the show, your mind feels clearer, you will find it easier to get to sleep, get higher quality sleep and sleep longer.
You’ll feel less exhausted.
Emotional dysregulation drains your energy. But when you manage emotions more effectively, you’d feel lighter, more refreshed. In fact, 58% of users report less daytime sleepiness—proof that emotional clarity boosts physical well-being.
You’ll express yourself more easily.
When you understand your emotions, you can communicate them better—leading to fewer misunderstandings and stronger, healthier relationships.
You deserve to feel in control of your emotions, your energy, and your life. Verenigma is here to help you get there.
Emotional regulation shapes how you handle stress, make decisions, and connect with others. If emotions often feel unclear, overwhelming, or hard to process, you may be experiencing emotional dysregulation—something that affects more people than you might think.
Understanding your emotions is the first step toward regaining balance. Take our “Difficulty Identifying Feelings” test to see how emotional clarity impacts your daily life.
Verenigma helps you take control of your emotions, not be controlled by them.
💡 Track your emotions. Gain clarity. Feel better.
Try Verenigma today. Your emotions, your power.
*Based off of an internal study on users with ADHD using the ESS questionnaire for sleepiness over a period of 30 days.
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When emotions feel unclear, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck. Affect labeling helps you consciously identify what you’re feeling—even when it’s hard to put into words.
Verenigma uses machine learning to analyze voice patterns in real time, detecting stress, anxiety, and depression as they occur. By providing accurate emotional insights, it helps you recognize emotional patterns and regain clarity.
Unprocessed emotions affect confidence, relationships, and decision-making. Verenigma’s affect labeling exercises strengthen the brain’s emotional processing, helping reduce stress and improve emotional regulation over time.
Turn subconscious emotions into clear, actionable insights—so you can feel more in control, connected, and balanced.
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We interviewed 59 Verenigma users with ADHD from the start of using the app up to 28 days, using the app at least twice per week. The users self reported Emotional Regulation (DERS-16) and Alexithymia (TAS-DIF) scores.
On average, users experienced a significant improvement in both emotional regulation and alexithymia.
Users also experienced a reduction in fatigue (based of ESS and ISI scores), and a reduced intolerance of uncertainty (IoU-S12).
Verenigma provides tools to test emotional regulation and alexithymia in our app. You can also take an alexithymia test on our website.
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