The problem Mood solves

Mental Health issues carry a social stigma with them. Even today, people hesitate before going to a doctor for any problem regarding their mental health. Families don't open up about their suffering until it is too late.

Our web portal will help the masses analyse their mental health status and seek the necessary help in time. We have provided free tests for the users to find the probabilty of having any issue like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, ADHD, and relationship problems.

After identifying the underlying issue, there is a provision for the user to see the list of relevant doctors and psychologists near him/her and then connect with them through online counselling using a Skype call.

There is pictorial and Twitter Feed based analysis of the user's mental state. We can even perform the voice analysis for the user to help find his/her mood or direction of thoughts at any time.

There is an Editor's section with some specially curated articles for the users to go through which will create awareness among them. Links to the latest real-time initiatives regarding mental health fields have also been provided using RSS feed.

Along with some general FAQs, we have an option for the users to write and share their thoughts and valuable feedback with us along with a weekly subscription of our newsletter.

Challenges we ran into

The first challenge was to get accurate scaling for the tests provided for the users. We have referenced a well known book made for the sole purpose of helping the psychologists. Since this was just a demo, the number of questions has been reduced which does not guarantee accurate scaling. We have tried our model with all the required questions for a particular test, and the results were accurate.

The voice analysis used in our model had some troubles with the duration of its running. Therefore, we cut the time short to 8 seconds so that it won't go on forever and create any discrepancies in the results.

Another issue was the security breach by not preserving the anonymity of the user. Hence, we have not provided any option for the user to login to our system. He/She can share their feedback to us through any mail, and we will still respect it as any other valuable feedback.

Since we know there a cultural and social stigma regarding mental health in our country, we have provided some relevant links and articles for our readers to go through and bust some of their myths.