u/You_Got_15

I've been working on a large personal project focused on depression for the past couple of years. It started as an attempt to better understand and manage my own depression, but it's grown into a framework that incorporates psychology, behavioral science, habit formation, motivation, cognitive biases, and practical interventions.

My motivation is simple: if this work eventually helps even one person avoid years of suffering—or saves even one life—it will have been worth the effort.

I'm not claiming I've discovered anything revolutionary, and I'm specifically not looking for validation. I'm looking for informed criticism.

If you were an independent person with no academic affiliation who wanted psychologists or researchers to evaluate a project like this, where would you go?

Are there communities, researchers, labs, graduate students, or organizations that are open to reviewing work like this? Or is the better approach to compare it against the existing literature and see whether the ideas are already represented?

I'm less interested in getting people to agree with me than in finding knowledgeable people who can point out flaws, unsupported assumptions, and places where the research already has better answers. If my ideas are wrong, I'd rather find out now than spend years building on a faulty foundation.

Where would you start?

I've been working on a large personal project focused on depression for the past couple of years. It started as an attempt to better understand and manage my own depression, but it's grown into a framework that incorporates psychology, behavioral science, habit formation, motivation, cognitive biases, and practical interventions.

My motivation is simple: if this work eventually helps even one person avoid years of suffering—or saves even one life—it will have been worth the effort.

I'm not claiming I've discovered anything revolutionary, and I'm specifically not looking for validation. I'm looking for informed criticism.

If you were an independent person with no academic affiliation who wanted psychologists or researchers to evaluate a project like this, where would you go?

Are there communities, researchers, labs, graduate students, or organizations that are open to reviewing work like this? Or is the better approach to compare it against the existing literature and see whether the ideas are already represented?

I'm less interested in getting people to agree with me than in finding knowledgeable people who can point out flaws, unsupported assumptions, and places where the research already has better answers. If my ideas are wrong, I'd rather find out now than spend years building on a faulty foundation.

Where would you start?

I've been working on a large personal project focused on depression for the past couple of years. It started as an attempt to better understand and manage my own depression, but it's grown into a framework that incorporates psychology, behavioral science, habit formation, motivation, cognitive biases, and practical interventions.

My motivation is simple: if this work eventually helps even one person avoid years of suffering—or saves even one life—it will have been worth the effort.

I'm not claiming I've discovered anything revolutionary, and I'm specifically not looking for validation. I'm looking for informed criticism.

If you were an independent person with no academic affiliation who wanted psychologists or researchers to evaluate a project like this, where would you go?

Are there communities, researchers, labs, graduate students, or organizations that are open to reviewing work like this? Or is the better approach to compare it against the existing literature and see whether the ideas are already represented?

I'm less interested in getting people to agree with me than in finding knowledgeable people who can point out flaws, unsupported assumptions, and places where the research already has better answers. If my ideas are wrong, I'd rather find out now than spend years building on a faulty foundation.

Where would you start?