Telegram Depression Risk Assessment Bot

Telegram Depression Risk Assessment Bot

Telegram Depression Risk Assessment Bot

The Depression Risk Assessment Bot is a Telegram-based mental-health screening tool. Through a friendly, guided conversation it collects responses to validated screening questions and analyses free-text answers using NLP and large language models to estimate depression risk.

How It Works

  • Runs a guided check-in conversation directly inside Telegram
  • Scores responses against validated mental-health screening questionnaires
  • Applies NLP / LLM analysis to free-text answers for sentiment and risk signals
  • Surfaces supportive guidance and signposts professional resources when risk is elevated

Key Features

  • Private, judgement-free, always-available first-line check-in
  • Accessible on a platform users already have
  • Combines structured screening with language-model understanding

Designed to lower the barrier to early mental-health screening. It supports, and does not replace, professional clinical assessment.

Technologies Used

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Large Language Models
  • Telegram Bot API
  • Python
  • Machine Learning