Serene

Inspiration

Around the world, men have been victim to societal pressures of toxic masculinity - whereby "manly" men are expected to always be mentally strong, causing them to bottle up their emotions and be more at risk to mental health illnesses. Therefore, our team created a chatbot specifically targetted to millennial men to provide them an avenue to express their emotions.

What it does

Serene is a two-in-one chatbot that offers both mental health support and resources to millennial men, who research has found to typically bottle up their emotions.

Our main feature, the mental health resources, the chatbot can provide information about coping mechanisms, self-care techniques, and local mental health services, thereby increasing access to support for those in need. It also provides millennial men a safe space to discuss their mental health issues with a chatbot companion that can help diagnose one's mental health.

How we built it

We wrote a list of prompts for the user to be able to answer one by one in order to to narrow done their possible mental health disorder, and then the app is meant to automatically connect you with the sources, tools, and exercises to assist with healing.

Challenges we ran into

Challenges we ran into were related to natural language processesing. However, the scripts that we wrote out will cover free responses, and will still serve as a companion chat bot until we continue development.