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Your friend must be hilarious. I don't think anyone would say something like that seriously.

• chongli 6y ago
  I also knew someone who built an app to try to help depressed people. She was pretty serious about it. As a person who has battled depression off and on, I also found it difficult to believe someone would take such an app seriously.
  • Mirioron 6y ago
    It depends on what the app does though. One of the ways people cope with things like that is escapism. If your app can provide that then it can help some people. Eg a game or an app for stories, jokes etc. Another thing that can help with depression is exercise. But it's difficult to exercise while depressed. If you can somehow build an app that tricks people into exercising (like Pokémon Go "tricked" people into going outside) then that could help too. It's not as weird as it sounds.
    • chongli 6y ago
      Those are good all good ideas. This was not what she built though. She had a chat bot that was supposed to talk to depressed people. The idea really did not appeal to me at all.