Crowdsourced Mental Health Research
Depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction — these things are deeply individual, but also deeply patterned. With enough data from enough people, we can find those patterns, identify subtypes, and eventually recommend things that help.
The catch: it only works if people share. So, we've tried to build something where sharing feels worth it. Answer questions about yourself, see how you compare.
This project started with a simple question: could I get strangers on the internet to share personal data about their mental health — without paying them, without a clinical setting, without an institution behind me?
Turns out: yes. With the right approach.
By recruiting entirely via grassroots marketing — flyers, stickers, QR codes — and adopting a design philosophy of give, don't take, we've reached 1672 users. No, we haven't solved mental health yet — but the data is real, the results are interesting, and most importantly: people seem to like it. Check it out and let me know what you think!