The problem Talking Minds solves

India is emerging as the World's suicide capital so there is a strong need to take serious action against it. Many people do not receive the necessary support and treatment leading to negative consequences on their well-being, productivity and overall quality of Life. 1 out of 8 individuals suffers from mental disorder.

Talking Minds is a collection of mental health resources, such as Self-Assessment tool, Forums or Discussion groups, Consultancy sessions from experts, Crisis support, Educational and Self-help resources, along with information about various mental health disorders.

There are 4 main features in Talking Minds:-

1. Self-Assessment Tool
2. Education
3. Vent It Out! (Discord community and Music Therapy)
4. Consult

i. Self Assessment Tool
An ML-driven interactive quiz that uses Logistic Regression algorithm to help users assess their mental health and identify areas that may need attention. It predicts whether you need to take the consultancy session with an expert, or you need to listen to some mind soothing music.

ii. Education
It helps you to understand and get a deeper insight into various Mental-health topics like Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Personality Disorder, etc in a unique way through story-telling using engaging carousels.

iii. Vent It Out!
It is a safe and supportive space for people to share their thoughts, feelings, and experiences related to mental health in our immensely engaging discord community. A specially formed, nature oriented spotify playlist to reduce stress.

iv. Consult
Getting mental health consultancy, by taking counselling therapy sessions with licensed and verified experts who are committed to providing a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space for users to discuss their mental health concerns.

According to the research, this type of innovative solution hasn't been implemented till date.

Challenges we ran into

The challenges we faced while making this website were:-

1. Developing a user-engaging website to provide a great and seamless experience.
2. Retaining the users for a longer period of time on the website.
3. Selecting the best, most accurate & efficient Machine Learning Algorithm for training the Dataset.
4. Making the pickle file for the trained ML Model.
5. Connecting the Python file to the NodeJS backend.
6. Publicly deployment of ML Model on 'render.com'.
7. Unable to fetch free Ethereum on testnet using faucet.
8. The connection between the frontend and backend parts of the Razorpay payment gateway.
9. Integration of Razorpay payment gateway in NextJS.
10. Designing the beautiful UI for the website.
11. Providing free token minting to the users to incentivize them on successfully taking the consultation.
12. Providing government-certified NFT certificates to mental health consultants who are providing consultancy through our platform.