Mentalium

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Inspiration

I have been struggling with anxiety and ADHD for over 15 years.

Tons of different therapies and pharmacy tries have led me to feeling good and one simple conclusion. There are just two things for people suffering from anxiety that really work - pharmacy, set by the experienced psychiatrist and CBT. These are not the excluding ways. These are the combined ways. When they work together, they really work.

The major problem with CBT and CBT diary is Time. To correct your mind sets you need to work with it. Something happened - take a pause. Analyze your feelings, emotions and thoughts. Wright down what have led you to these feelings. Find an alternative thought. Then get back to it and analyze it again.

It works. But the problem is to do it you need time just to sit down and to wright everything down.

Writing down all things for the CBT diary on smartphone is a nightmare. You will hate CBT if you need to go with your diary on smartphone.

So you do it on somewhere where you have keyboard - on your laptop. Before you go to sleep. But to be honest you do it a few hours before a session with your therapist. Cause it is the only time when you can find a few hours to do it.

And then you just send all your thoughts, figured out in .doc to the therapist via email. He opens it on the session and you discuss it.

That’s how it works now.

And it is really really inefficient.

My son also has ADHD and I don’t want him to follow my way to spend 15 years of life trying to find the salvation of his problem. As I don’t want almost half billion people with ADHD and anxiety too.

What it does

STAGE 1. Mentalium is your CBT voice assistant in the pocket. When the cause happens, you use it right away?

Just open the app and it will ask you the 4 questions of your CBT diary:

• Describe the situation that let you to anxiety problem?
• What were your thoughts now?
• What are your emotions and reaction of your body? What are their intensity?
• What could be the alternative thought in this situation?

You don’t have to type it. You describe it by voice. Mentalium transforms this to text and shares the material with your therapist and anonymous supporting community if you want.

You can always get back to your diary and take a look at the situation let to the anxiety surge. And you can listen you your voice when it all happened.

Remember Twin Peaks and agent Dale Cooper :)? Yeah, just like this.

Mentalium also analyzes your progress and highlights it. This is especially important for people with ADHD. And unfortunately ADHD and Anxiety go hand in hand together.

Your CBT therapist and has immediate access to your diary and can help you right away.

STAGE 2. Mentalium is the place where you can find good CBT specialists and prescriptions who really know what pharmacy you need and won’t go with a number of experiments with you. Specialists are rated by the algorithms that is based on vote of specialists for specialists.

Ratings based on patient reviews just don’t work in psychiatry. Look at user reviews. «I have visited this doctor a few times and he is nice. 5 stars!» What do you see in the review? What does it really tell you? Nothing.

You know nothing about the results of this patient. What happened with his ADHD and anxiety? Does he feel good? Will this doctor help you? You don’t know it. But it is a 5 star rated doctor.

In the hight risk level industries as psychiatry usual b2c rating algorithms just don’t work. But good doctors know good doctors. And know bad ones. So the only way to create the actual rating of mental health professionals is doctors voting for doctors.

We are going to let only real high level professional, oriented on peoples health not just money work with mentalium clients.

How we built it

I have almost chosen Cursor to build it but the friend of mine told me about this hackathon and Bolt. She is extremely excited by it and already launched yofounder.com on Bolt. I was impressed by the fact she created it just in 8 days. Wow! It is unreal! But yeah she did it! So I want to build MVP of mentalism on Bold by the end of this hackathon. And yeah, I want to win)))))

Challenges we ran into

I have tried different hypotheses that needed no coding, lots of custdev and interview with specialist to find the best potentially working way to go. So now I have strategy and ready to go coding ;)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

My biggest accomplishment is the way I feel now. The second one is that my son feels much better after me and my wife found a good psychiatrist for him using the algorithm I wrote about.

Other are: I launched a $1m+ in revenue company when I was 25 and left it at 30. I have helped CS-Cart E-commerce platform to become the world leading tools for startupers to lang their marketplace at no time. My pet project won the biggest award for web projects in Russia. The book that I produces and worked on as a co-author is sold in most biggest book stores in Russia.

What we learned

What I’ve learned is Mentalium is needed. CBT therapists that I know I waiting for it and it is important for me.

What's next for Mentalium

I will build it on Bolt and win lifetime license for Bolt ;) Don’t know if there is such price in the list but if I’m given an opportunity to choose, I will choose this prize!

Built With

• bolt.new