Dost - hum sab ka

An AI based support community for people who are in need of mental health care

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Inspiration:

Suicide has become a major public health problem in Pakistan. Mental illness is rarely mentioned. Lack of resources, poorly established primary and mental health services and weak political processes make suicide prevention a formidable challenge in Pakistan.

What it does

  • Provide Help and support
  • Spread awareness and education
  • Build a support community
  • Create usable data and demographics

How we built it

  • We used Figma for prototyping and spent a lot of time on ideation and conceptualizing the solution.
  • We built the prototype by having many discussions with different mentors and other participants of this event. We consulted a doctor as well, to better understand how to teach our AI.

Challenges we ran into

  • Design Problems (Color Selection to sooth user)
  • Whether to tell people if they're talking to a AI bot or not
  • Understanding the severity of mental illness
  • How to help people without letting them know

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • To reach a point where we can decide how to help the troubled person.
  • Better user experience
  • Understanding the feelings of a troubled person

What's next for development

We are done with the initial prototyping. Now we will focus on building the AI part of the project.

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