Reminding people with depression to positive thinking and mentally supportive exercises

For my project, I am working in collaboration with GGZe in Eindhoven to make an app-connected wearable that can help people with depression throughout rough times. In practice every client at GGZe has its own personalized therapy because of the uniqueness of one’s identity and problems. There is not one universal method and thereby the tool will be personalizable so that it can support each client during the therapy through its own way.

A strong motivator for the clients is to relive memories or even focus on future positive experiences in order to get a more positive mindset. The importance of this motivator differs for each client, but the eventual product will allow the client to set these positive experiences and be reminded of it on a regular basis in order to stimulate positive thinking. Adding up to this, the tool will also remind the client to perform mentally supportive exercises in order to increase the effectiviness of the therapy.