It's Okay

It's okay to be different, its okay to be you

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Inspiration

This rise in the degree of psychological distress in terms of–Depression, Anxiety and Stress among the student population in India during the strict lockdown period was much steeper compared to normal which itself is no less dangerous for the masses. It is observed that the main reason behind such disorders was people not sharing their problems and grievances with someone and also keeping themselves chained in negative thoughts leading to stress.

These scenarios have inspired us to build a platform which ha some particular features to relive them from their problems and discuss their way through it. This platform is built to escape negativity and boast up confidence and happiness among the students.

What it does

This Project aims to provide services as content and features for the students to help them overcome mental problems. This Application will act as their virtual friend. This Application provides features to help the students to relate to other individuals and discuss their problems anonymously. This will help the user to get some relief and satisfaction. The application provides a variety of exclusive videos available which the students can access anytime to get some help regarding the problems they are facing.

There is a home page section that consists of several posts, which are posted by several users. Each user can post about a problem or reply to a problem anonymously.

There is also a write up section in which the user can write about how they feel and keep a track of their mental health.

All these features in the application helps to make an integrated platform on which one user can spend some time and find themselves far away from stress and gain that little push or motivation to face their problems in life.

How we built it

The project started with a basic idea to help students free up their mind from mental stress and anxiety. The features in the application are built for the purpose for tackling their problems and is entirely for the well being of the students. The frontend of the app is built on Kotlin in android studio. I've used it because of the smooth transition between XML layout and Kotlin language. For the backend part Firebase Authentication and Firebase Storage were used.

Challenges we ran into

The major Challenges faced in the project are as follows:

  1. To find the right software to develop the frontend on so that it works smoothly with minimum time taken.
  2. Developing and learning how to implement local database using Room implementation.
  3. Working through the project alone and constantly motivating myself to do better.
  4. Taking advice from third party and implementing it within the deadline.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The accomplishments are as follows:

  1. Creating secure login. 2. Designing of the UI. 3.Anonymous Posting

What we learned

We have learned that how we need a proper documentation and designing to form building an app. The detailed analysis is fully required to build a fantastic application. Working under deadlines to meet the project demands. There should not be a tunnel vision while working on new ideas. I have also learned how to store private data like password on the device itself and how to form a local database.

What's next for It's Okay

  1. Asking user 5-10 questions everyday to know how they feel and recommend them content according to there feelings.
  2. Let them connect to open sessions for meditation and mental problems.
  3. Users can also get in with appointment with therapist using the App.
  4. Upvotes feature for home page posts.

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