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edupression
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edupression – your digital psychotherapy

edupression is a digital health application (‘DiGA’), also known as an “app on prescription”, which teaches you step by step how to manage your depression. Therapy with edupression consists of knowledge content, psychotherapeutic sessions and a mood chart to check your therapy progress.

You can use edupression as a mobile app on your smartphone/tablet. Anywhere and at any time. edupression also works via the internet browser on your PC.

edupression has been permanently included in the Directory of Digital Health Applications (‘DiGA’) by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (‘BfArM’). This means that the effectiveness of edupression has been proven in a clinical study and you can obtain a prescription for the application free of charge.

How do I get a prescription?

edupression for depression

You can use edupression if you are currently experiencing a mild to moderate depressive episode and have not had a manic episode in your medical history. In this case, we speak of unipolar depression.

To differentiate: In the case of bipolar depression, manic phases occur alongside depressive episodes as part of bipolar disorder. During such phases, those affected are often overly energetic, hardly need any sleep and tend to overestimate their own abilities.

Under What is depression? you can find out more and assess the severity of your depression in the self-test.

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Even if you are already taking medication for your depression or are undergoing or have undergone psychotherapy, edupression can be a support for you. Because with edupression, you have the opportunity to further promote your mental health and thus strengthen yourself against relapses.

How edupression can help you

With edupression, you will learn to better understand your illness, make everyday life with depression easier to cope with and have fewer depressive phases in the long term. To this end, edupression is made up of 3 components:

Psychoeducation

Become an expert in your disease with the edupression knowledge content.

Understand the symptoms and causes of your depression

Gain knowledge about the various depression therapies

Try out methods for relaxation and stress management

Psychotherapy

Learn techniques for everyday life to reduce depressive episodes and symptoms.

Recognise negative patterns of behaviour and change them

Receive support in overcoming daily challenges

Discover ways to improve your depressive symptoms

Mood chart

Check the progress of your depression therapy and keep an eye on your therapy successes.

Document symptoms and influencing factors and track your progress

Understand the context of your illness

Recognise the signs of a depressive episode earlier