{"skill":{"slug":"depression-support","displayName":"Depression Support","summary":"Daily support for depression with mood tracking, behavioral activation, and self-care","description":"---\nname: depression-support\ndescription: Daily support for depression with mood tracking, behavioral activation, and self-care\nauthor: clawd-team\nversion: 1.0.0\ntriggers:\n  - \"feeling depressed\"\n  - \"depression help\"\n  - \"low mood\"\n  - \"can't get out of bed\"\n  - \"mental health check\"\n---\n\n# Depression Support\n\n**Daily check-ins and small wins. One step at a time.**\n\n## What it does\n\nThis skill offers three core functions to support you through depression:\n\n- **Mood Tracking**: Log how you're feeling today with simple 1-10 scales or descriptive words. Track patterns over time to understand what helps.\n- **Behavioral Activation Suggestions**: When motivation is low, the skill suggests small, achievable tasks that don't require energy or willpower—just momentum.\n- **Self-Care Prompts**: Personalized reminders for hydration, movement, sleep, and connection tailored to what you find manageable.\n\n## Usage\n\n### Log Mood\nAsk: \"Log my mood\" or \"Check in on how I'm feeling\"\n- Rate your mood on a scale (1-10 or descriptive: terrible, bad, okay, good, great)\n- Optional: Add a note about triggers or context\n- Data is stored locally so only you see it\n\n### Get Suggestions\nAsk: \"What should I do today?\" or \"I don't know what to do\"\n- Receives 3-5 micro-tasks based on your energy level\n- Tasks take 5-15 minutes (no commitment required)\n- Examples: drink a glass of water, step outside for 30 seconds, text one person, open a window\n\n### Small Wins\nAsk: \"Celebrate a win\" or \"I did something today\"\n- Log any accomplishment, no matter how small\n- Tracks momentum over time\n- Builds evidence against the voice telling you nothing matters\n\n### Self-Care Check\nAsk: \"Self-care reminder\" or \"Am I taking care of myself?\"\n- Brief check on basics: sleep, food, water, movement, connection\n- No judgment—just awareness\n- Suggests one small thing you can do right now\n\n### Track Patterns\nAsk: \"Show my mood history\" or \"What patterns do you see?\"\n- Weekly or monthly overview of mood trends\n- Identifies what correlates with better days (more sleep? time outside? talking to someone?)\n- Helps spot early warning signs\n\n## Behavioral Activation\n\nWhen depression tells you nothing matters and motivation is gone, behavioral activation breaks the cycle by decoupling action from feeling.\n\n**The principle:** You don't feel like doing something → so you wait until you feel like it → but you don't feel like it (depression) → so you do nothing → which makes depression worse.\n\n**The flip:** Do the thing anyway, even at 5% capacity. The feeling follows the action, not the other way around.\n\n**Micro-tasks this skill suggests:**\n- Physical: stretch, stand, walk to the window, drink water, take a shower\n- Social: text one person, read one message, react to a post\n- Creative: draw one line, write three words, hum a song\n- Cognitive: read one paragraph, watch a 2-minute video, solve one puzzle\n\nStart with the smallest possible version. \"Go for a walk\" becomes \"step outside.\" That's it. Momentum builds.\n\n## Tips\n\n1. **Check in daily, not obsessively.** Once a day is enough. Depression loves spirals—don't track every hour.\n\n2. **You don't need to feel better to complete a task.** The task is the win. Feeling better is a side effect, not a requirement.\n\n3. **Small wins are still wins.** Taking a shower on a bad day is the same as climbing a mountain on a good day. Your brain doesn't know the difference—it only knows you did something.\n\n4. **When you're doing okay, set future self up.** On better days, note what helped. Write it down. Your depressed self will need that info later.\n\n5. **All data stays local on your machine.** Nothing syncs to the cloud. Your mood history, notes, and patterns exist only on your device—no tracking, no analytics, no sharing.\n\n## If You're in Crisis\n\nThis skill is not a substitute for professional help.\n\n- **988** (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline)\n- **Text HOME to 741741** (Crisis Text Line)\n\nIf you're having thoughts of harming yourself, reach out now. These services are free, confidential, and available 24/7.\n","tags":{"latest":"1.0.0"},"stats":{"comments":0,"downloads":2416,"installsAllTime":91,"installsCurrent":4,"stars":2,"versions":1},"createdAt":1769326417221,"updatedAt":1778485848771},"latestVersion":{"version":"1.0.0","createdAt":1769326417221,"changelog":"Initial release – daily support skill for depression.\n\n- Log and track mood with a 1–10 scale or descriptive words.\n- Receive behavioral activation micro-tasks tailored to current energy levels.\n- Self-care check-ins covering hydration, food, sleep, movement, and connection.\n- Track and celebrate small wins and accomplishments.\n- See trends and patterns over time with mood history and correlating factors.\n- All data is private and stored locally on your device.","license":null},"metadata":null,"owner":{"handle":"jhillin8","userId":"s1757a558bz4yng2r6pmd1tbn98857xq","displayName":"jhillin8","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/79551560?v=4"},"moderation":null}