Add Mental Health Check-ins to Your App with a Free API (3 lines of code)
python
dev.to
You built a journaling app, a habit tracker, or a mood log. Users type their thoughts. Then... nothing. The text sits there. What if your app could detect when a user is spiraling into all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, or self-blame — and gently offer a reframe? That's a mental health check-in, and it's the difference between a diary and a tool that actually helps. I open-sourced a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) thought analyzer that detects 10 cognitive distortions from text. It's