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Precision medicine for mental health is a no-brainer. That said, for it to work, it will take a lot of data - and understandably, people are wary of sharing details about their mental health. The thing is, to truly change the way we understand and treat mental health issues - we just need the data. It doesn't matter who you are - we don't need to know. You can just be a datapoint.

"Disorders" of depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction - are all highly overlapping, and highly subjective. With a large enough dataset of mental health profiles, we could find patterns, identify subtypes, and eventually maybe even recommend things that could help. The idea here is to essentially crowd-source this effort.

I've worked in this field as a data scientist for nearly a decade, and after my last company shut down, I decided to spend some time setting this thing up (and testing how well ChatGPT could substitute for actual web development skills). (And also too enjoying some time off with my two-year old). I've tried to make it entertaining/engaging, so there's some weird questions thrown in, and you can see the results / how you compare as you go. So far we're at 966 people and counting.

So yeah, if you took the baseline survey - awesome, you've already helped build this thing that might help people some day. If you want to answer more questions (or send this to a friend) - even better. And by all means check back in occasionally - I'll update with findings as we go.