Hello everybody. I'm in my teens and have struggled with severe depression since I was about 13. I've been attending therapy for a couple of years, have tried quite a few medications, and have had multiple hospitalizations. I know all too well how ineffective treatment can be at times, and how terrible it is to be in treatment and still feel like shit every single second you're alive. However, in the past few months I've seen a significant improvement in my mental health. My productivity has significantly increased, and I've finally got around to working on an idea I have last summer. I feel that it might be relevant to the /r/depression community, and I'd love feedback on the idea. Basically, I became very frustrated with how treatment for my depression was approached. I would visit my therapist every 1-2 weeks, and every visit she would ask me about how the time in between appointments had been, expecting me to remember every mood swing or depressive episode, in addition to the causation. The reality of things was that no matter how good my memory was, there simply isn't any way I could remember all of that completely and accurately. And, to be honest, it felt pretty fucking useless to be talking about my suicidal episodes a week after they had occurred. So, what if there was a good way to track all relevant mental health data, visualize it in relation to medication changes or significant life events, and also report that to a therapist (or parent, spouse, sibling) instantaneously and automatically. Instead of that mental health data being too old and irrelevant to effectively aid treatment by the time it's reported to an individual's support network, perhaps it could be efficiently used to make accurate treatment decisions or to help intervention of suicide or self-harm. The core idea behind what I'm building is to provide a platform for tracking, visualizing, and efficiently sharing mental health data relevant to treatment. Also, I don't know if this is just me, but it seems like the times that I need help the most I'm too emotionally isolated/confused/exhausted to actually reach out for that help actively. Oftentimes I've wished someone else just knew how I was feeling so maybe they could approach me about it, which is exactly what I need in times of isolation and depression. Well, on the platform I'm building, if you mark your mood as dangerously depressed (as in suicidal), you will be given the choice to have the website notify people you've added in your support network about how you're feeling at the moment. (by text or email) For me at least, I'm a lot more inclined to let a website notify my parents or therapist that I'm suicidal than I am to actively seek their help. I guess it just has to do with how passive I get when I feel depressed. Essentially, I want to build the technology platform for mental health that I wish I've had for the past 4 years. However, I don't know if this is useful for other people which is why I'm actively seeking input on the ideas I've shared. There is more to the project than what I've shared here, but I'd rather give the basic overview than bore everyone with details. If you have ideas for this project, or criticism, feel free to share. And if there are any questions you have, feel free to ask! The reality is, if you think it's a terrible idea, I would actually like to hear that versus spending significant time and money on something that people wouldn't use. Also, if you think it's a cool idea and would be interested in testing early versions of it, just let me know and perhaps we can get in touch to make that happen! For those of you who read all the way to this, thanks for taking the time to read it :)