I built an app to fix my depression

The site is down _and_ IA is down (for me at least) at the moment as well. I feel like I hit a jackpot.

FYI please spell check!

Poor spelling makes things look less credible ("tedius", etc.)

Wow this app is quite neat. Basically it's like a catalogue of different emotions and mental states and it's got prompts that take you through them and help you to identify and focus on them and help you work through them in a very low-pressure way. Very nice!

I've used Daylio. For me, the problem with using it long-term is that the different moods are contextual to the overall stat you are in. Meaning, I could have a "rad" day when in a depressive state which simply meant I wasn't overburdened with depression. Meanwhile, when not in a depressed place an "okay" day might still be leaps and bounds better than any days that were lived through duringthe depression(s)

> If you managed to finish the app, you weren't very depressed.

I disagree, as someone with experience in the matter. I think is fine to question whether OP's depression was a real major depressive episode or to what extent they were really depressed. However, the succinctness of your comment leads me to believe that it's more simplistic than anything and thus counterproductive while discussing depression. It's not always a matter of "but was it real depression, though?"

> Depression acts primarily on willpower.

Depression acts on everything and shouldn't be characterized so easily. That's exactly what happens in real life, where a statement like yours can instantly nullify the efforts of someone trying to tell you that, yes, they look normal, but something is wrong. To that, you'd likely reply, "but Jane, you don't look that depressed!"

Some people are able to keep operating on certain realms, which IMHO is the key to getting out of the rut; grasping whatever still motivates you, even if just a bit, to operate at 1% of your normal capacity and "power" on.

> The bad feelings come as a consequence of not being able to get anything done.

I repeat, not always and not for everyone as the causes for circumstantial and clinical depression are too many to count and so are the symptoms and the way they are externalized.