Digital habits of students have profoundly reduced the space devoted to reflection and self-understanding. Being constantly online also means never being alone with yourself and therefore having less space to analyze your thoughts and behaviors (strengths and weaknesses,reaction to situations, preferences, needs, emotions) with consequences also in a school environment.

Through Dear-Io, adolescents will experience and reinforce catharsis, self-clarification, self-validation and private selfconsciousness.

Students will learn to experience loneliness as a positive moment of self-centeredness on oneself.

The app can not only increase the soft skills of teenagers through the use of a serious game but also contains a space dedicated to self-reflection, a digital diary that allows teenagers to improve their awareness and the ability to process emotions through suggestions that originate from psychoanalytic theories, allowing to manage and balance the immediacy and hyper-connection guaranteed from social media responsible for the profound cultural transformation.

The different technological means at our disposal are nothing more than empty containers, neutral instruments, capable of assuming a positive or negative value depending on the use that is made of them. In this way, the smartphone becomes analytic support for the experience and exploration of its own inner world and emotions, making a direct contribution to the intra-psychic and interpersonal growth of young people with positive repercussions in schools and extracurricular.