MESSAGE FROM OUR FOUNDERS

Recently, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many teenagers and adults are restricted within their household, which can be very overwhelming for numerous people, a sudden halt in lifestyle can be stressful. According to many articles published by well known universities, they state “The COVID-19 crisis may increase suicide rates during and after the pandemic. Mental health consequences of the COVID-19 crisis including suicidal behaviour are likely to be present for a long time and peak later than the actual pandemic.”
My colleagues and I have created a concept which we would like to implement in real life. After testing and observing the Indian Helplines, they are either not available or don’t do a very convincing job of listening to the patient and trying ti help them. We aim to create a connection or bridge between expert medical advisors and the patients who are suffering with depression, anxiety or any similar problem respectively. Our website will consist of a questionnaire, which when answered categorises the patients, which then can be presented to the physiologists, and according they can have a chat with the patient. All this will happen for a certain number of hours each week, where the patient and the physiologist will be given a time where both of them are free to talk, we will feed notes to the patients who sign up with us, so they get some encouragement or support with utilising our platform. We have presented this idea to many people and their feedback was that it was a good method to help the society while we are all confined to our homes, so we will proceed with the idea, but if possible it could be our CAS project, if not we will still proceed with the idea.
Regards, Mihir Desai Arin Panda Karan Mehra Aditya Jain