Track: Mental Health
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. There is a stigma surrounding mental illness that needs to be cast away and people need to be made aware so that they seek help at the right time.
People are less receptive to ideas that are just told or shown and are more receptive to ideas that are presented in an interactive manner.
Our application is an interactive platform that is dedicated to spread awareness about mental health issues and manage mental health while building a safe community together.
• Forum to Discuss: In today's day where Mental health is considered a taboo, there is also an essential need for people suffering to reach out and share what they're feeling. Here they can either being public or anonymously share their views on some specific topic or create some new threads and share their heart out!
• Mood Tracker: It helps the user keep track of their emotions. We've created this keeping in mind that a person if feeling down for fifteen consecutive days, is advised to visit a doctor to get further help. Moreover, User could also get motivated seeing the amazing lineup of the vibrant colors! A personal diary has also been added to keep their mood and thoughts at the same place amazingly!
• Calm Rooms A must visit and an exciting journey! Here are safe rooms, a place to calm down and listen to the mind soothing beats and visit various places like Island, Forest, Calm room(3D), an immersive experience to interact with surroundings that feel surreal! It also has a dedicated meditation room where users can come and meditate peacefully! A circular timer is also added to the page indicating the meditation time. Another feature where our users can find solace is a fun activity! A random fun activity is generated using Bored API every time user clicks on the button. Here the user can get involved by doing various happy and fun tasks assigned, spreading smiles and happiness!
• Productivity: During our research we found that especially through the covid times, virtual working has made people much more lonely and major reasons for going through stress and headaches is huge workloads, not having much "Me Time" to rest, hence we've added a feature where user can not only keep the work organized by adding and deleting tasks but use it as a one-stop dashboard for everything! The features in this productivity zone are a To-Do list, organized notes, and bookmarks feature! Although we cannot reduce the work burden of an individual but having these portals handy will boost the productivity of the induvial, helping them take some Me Time to rest at the end of the day!
• Events: Events dedicated towards mental health can be added by various users on the event page with various hashtags. On clicking on these hashtags user will get events specifically under that hashtag. They can subscribe that hashtag to get further notifications! This feature will help us spread more awareness publicly!
• Challenges we ran into:
Implementing all the features in the given time constraint was one of the major challenges for us! Managing our time, the right way helped us a lot in successfully building the product. It was an amazing learning experience for us overall!
• The Impact:
I believe that MentBud is a one-stop-solution as a platform and it'll impact people out there to not only by being a mental buddy, but also a safe space to discuss everything, a supportive community of people who understand each other!
So lets MentBud!
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