AI Setup Guide for PTSD & Depression
You've been carrying this for longer than anyone around you probably knows. Managing it. Getting through the day. Looking, from the outside, like you're fine.This guide is not a substitute for professional mental health care. If you're in crisis, please contact emergency services or a crisis helpline — resources for five countries are in the back of the guide itself.What this guide isThis is a practical, step-by-step setup guide for turning Claude into a private thinking space — a companion that's honest with you, not just agreeable, and that remembers where you left off. It takes about five minutes to set up. Everything after that, your companion walks you through itself.What's included 29-page PDF guide, instant download A five-minute setup walkthrough (create a Project, paste one prompt, upload this guide — done) The full companion prompt, written to keep the AI honest rather than just soothing A handover system, so nothing has to be re-explained session to session Twelve guided activities across three phases — Grounding, Self-Discovery, and Forward Movement Two real, unedited example conversations showing exactly what a session looks like A short section on what actually happens on the days even opening the app feels like too much A plain-language research section — on medication, sleep, treatment resistance, and what recovery can include Crisis resources for Australia, the US, UK, Canada, and New Zealand Who it's forThis is for you if you're living with PTSD or depression and want somewhere honest to put things down — not another app promising to fix you, and not a chatbot that just agrees with whatever you say. You don't need a diagnosis. You don't need to already know what you'd talk about. If the description above sounds like where you are, it was written for you.What changes by the endYou'll have a companion already set up and already knowing how to be careful with you — not something you configure once and forget, but something that gets more useful the more you use it, because it remembers.What a session actually looks likeIn one of the two real conversations included in the guide, someone arrives describing a day where nothing got done — already certain it was laziness. The companion doesn't rush to reassurance. It names the actual gap between knowing what would help and being able to start it — a documented feature of depression, not a character flaw — then asks a real question instead of closing the topic down. That's the shape of the whole guide: recognition before advice, honesty before comfort.Author noteI spent ten years as an emergency medical dispatcher, listening to people in crisis. Then I spent six years living with PTSD and severe depression myself. Nothing in this guide is clinical advice. It's what I built for myself, on the way through.— Brian Walsh, BB HopeFAQIs this a substitute for therapy?No. This is a practical resource, not a clinical tool. It doesn't replace therapy or professional support — it's built for the space between sessions, or for people who aren't yet working with a professional.Do I need a diagnosis to use this?No. This is written for people living with what they're living with. A diagnosis isn't required.Is this written by a therapist?No. I'm not a therapist. I'm someone who spent ten years as an emergency dispatcher and six years recovering from PTSD and severe depression. This guide draws on that experience, and on the research I found most useful along the way.What AI tool does this use?Claude, made by Anthropic. The guide walks you through setting it up from a free account — no technical background needed.What if this isn't right for me?Contact bbhope.net@gmail.com within 7 days for a full refund. No questions asked.How do I access the guide after purchase?Instant download link after purchase. No account required. It's a PDF you can save and open on any device.Refund line (final line of description)If this guide doesn't deliver what it promises, I'll refund you — no questions asked, within 7 days. Contact bbhope.net@gmail.com.
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