TherapiX

Inspiration

Mental health is a major concern worldwide. There are a variety of factors that may contribute to the high prevalence of mental health issues among people in this generation. Some of the most commonly cited factors include:

Social-media
Stress
Isolation
Trauma

There are several factors that contribute to this situation, including a lack of mental health professionals, a lack of awareness about mental health issues, and a lack of access to mental health resources in rural areas.

We believe most of the mental health problems can be solved with help of perspective shift. There are people who make poor decisions not because they are awful people, but because they lack information. Hence, if we give people who had negative experiences—such as negative parenting and negative childhoods—positive tools, knowledge, and experiences, maybe they could avoid repeating that.

"The Universe whispers until it screams. Your body whispers until it screams. "Bad" feelings are not meant to be staved off. They are meant to be inconveniencing. They are you, or something greater than you, telling yourself: Something is not right. Your gut voice will never go ignored. It will project out and eventually turn into big, loud external voices that demand you to pay attention. Learn to listen while it's little. The most hilariously ironic thing of life is that you have the most success doing what feels right. Following our genuine happiness, our internal peace, is our only real responsibility."

What it does

TherapiX addresses mental health challenges by providing convenient and accessible way for people to access mental health information and support. It not only explains how to deal with challenging emotions like anxiety and despair, but also why you might be experiencing emotional imbalances. It will reveal the underlying reason for your feelings. Because our environments and the way we were raised as children often have an impact on how we develop our personalities. It can be challenging to identify underlying traumas and emotions; TherapiX will offer assistance.

How we built it

We have built this chatbot with the help of google cloud's Dialogflow tool. Dialogflow is an NLP (Natural Language Processing) platform, which is used to develop an application related to the conversations and experience for the customers of the company in different languages on numerous platforms. We have created different intents on wide range of mental heath topics and different queries the user may ask. We have then created the responses for all those intents. Dialogflow also offers integrations to various types of the most popular messaging applications such as Twitter, SKYPE,KIK,Viber, Facebook Messenger, Telegram etc. We have integrated our chatbot "TherapiX" with Telegram.

Challenges we ran into

Chatbots can play an important role in early intervention and help individuals access resources and support when they are experiencing mild to moderate symptoms. We had to do a lot of research on psychology field, in what way people feel better, what kind of feelings, emotions do people experience and how they deal with it based on their childhood experiences, how trauma can affect people, how healing works. The whole process of learning about this gave us a new level of enlightenment.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our objective is to create a chatbot for mental wellness that can provide people the direction they require. Also, no matter where they are, they can access assistance and support at any time. TherapiX has been successfully made. Moreover, TherapiX can fill a void in remote locations with limited access to mental health specialists. We are thrilled that we are able to bring our idea into reality.

What we learned

Throughout the process of developing TherapiX, we have gained valuable insights about mental health. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insights from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. On Technical aspect, we learned a lot about Dialogflow and how well we can use it to create amazing chatbots.

What's next for TherapiX

We intend to improve the responses in a better way and keep the chatbot updated. In case the user wants to speak with the therapist directly, we are additionally seeking to connect Therapists via web links.