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Show HN: Aurelio – AI CBT Therapist – MVP Launch

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This is a MVP for the CBT app. I have observed a rise in my general depression and anxiety due to pandemic. And as it happens we experience depression, anxiety and anger from moment to moment. Instead of making it a disorder, it should be classified something like exercise. The step by step approach of exercising your mind to overcome the undesirable feelings. The negative distortions are part of us since the beginning of time. They helped us survive in the jungle so they are here to stay. What changed is our environment from dangerous jungle life to Instagram social wars and Sugar advertisements. I want to build an app which works like a google map for mind.

And also it's only built for web at the moment. I want to focus on the algos and scoring and the UX of the app.

The present version only contains the evaluation sessions which are recommended to be taken once a week. The therapy program for depression, anxiety and anger will be launched in coming weeks.

The evaluation sessions are taken the Feeling great book by Dr. David Burns. There are many CBT books out there which are an inspiration for this app. Mind over Mood is a prominent one among all the books for CBT.

I want to build the app with science/research backed techniques rather than just mood journaling. I want this app to be a replacement for therapist, atleast for day-to-day negative feelings we face.

Tech Stack - 1. NextJS 2. Firebase 3. ChakraUI

Please comment any feedback about the app.

I'm curious to know whether you are working with therapists on this effort?

FYI, until I read this comment I had no idea what the app would do, and even now I'm not too clear on what I would get out of the evaluation session.

Good luck, we need more mental health tools out there.

I'm not working with any therapist as of now. The methods and techniques are from books and research papers which are currently offline and manual. I'm building a app around it which would have measuring and analysis features.

I will improve the landing page details to explain the app in depth.

The evaluation session is just diagnose if you're suffering from any negative distortion such as depression or anger. And I agree it's not of much use as of now. I'll launch more features and therapy techniques which follow the evaluation.

Thanks for the feedback.

I fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out.

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