Hello!
We are a group of students from a college in Kochi, India, currently working on a project focused on mental health and stress among students. With rising academic pressure, competition and limited access to mental health support, we want to explore how technology can play a role in creating positive change. We're reaching out to gather ideas for the critical problem affecting lakhs of students across India. Your technical expertise and suggestions would be invaluable.
Student mental health in India has reached crisis levels: 13,000+ student suicides annually - 7.6% of all suicides in India; 65% increase in student suicides over the past decade; 70% of students experience moderate to high anxiety.
Major triggers: Academic pressure, toxic competitiveness, family expectations, generational gap, exam failures, social media comparison.
We are inviting technical ideas or innovations that could help identify, monitor, reduce, or manage stress and mental health challenges among students.
Your ideas can involve any form of technology - such as:
- Software / Mobile Apps (self-help, peer support, mindfulness or counselling tools)
- Data Analytics (early stress detection, mood tracking, predictive well-being models)
- IoT or Wearable Devices (sensors for stress indicators like sleep, heart rate or posture)
- VR / AR or Gamified Platforms (immersive relaxation or awareness experiences)
The goal is to collect practical, ethical and scalable ideas that could later be developed or piloted in educational institutions.
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Mikey Dorje ・ Nov 7
It’s an invitation for technical suggestions to help address student mental health challenges in India, highlighting:
The severity of the problem (high student suicide rates, anxiety levels, academic pressure).
Key triggers (competition, family expectations, social media, generational gaps).
Areas where technology could help, including apps, data analytics, wearables, VR/AR, and gamified platforms.
The goal of gathering practical, ethical, and scalable solutions for monitoring, reducing, or managing stress.
You could consider a mobile app that tracks mood, sleep, and activity using simple surveys or wearable data, then gives personalized mindfulness exercises or relaxation tips. Adding a peer support chat or connecting students to counselors virtually could help reduce isolation. Data analytics could flag students at higher stress risk early, while gamified VR or AR experiences could offer immersive relaxation breaks during study sessions. The key is keeping it ethical, private, and easy to use.