About Metamorphosis

We’ve seen gaps everywhere, and we found that gaps in accessing mental health resources are pretty unique. One obvious gap, as easily observed in any major sectors such as education and healthcare, is the economic gap, the gap between rich and poor. In this case, some people with limited economic resources are not privileged enough to see mental health professionals when they encounter certain mental illness symptoms. But unlike physical health problems, in some parts of the world, there is still stigma towards people with mental health problems. This results in another gap that has nothing to do with economic resources. Afraid of being judged and discriminated against, such a gap makes some people have less even no courage to seek professional help when they experience mental illness symptoms.

We’ve seen how people power changes and revolutionizes things around the world. Crowdsourcing is a form of people power, it is when people come together for a common goal. In the digital world, the crowdsourcing model is at the core of platforms like Wikipedia, Waze, Kickstarter, and Kitabisa. In the health sector, we have CrowdMed, Stuff That Works, and some others. Metamorphosis’ spirit is no different than those platforms, we want to bring people with mental health problems together for a common goal. Well, actually two common goals.

Together we can build an pra diagnosis tool for people with mental illness symptoms. Given the symptoms, people can get pra diagnosis of which mental health conditions they’ve been experiencing. Moreover, we can find out together which treatments work best for each mental health condition. Given the condition, people can get recommendations of which treatment works best for their condition. In building these pra diagnosis and treatment recommendation systems, we use statistical and machine learning techniques to analyze the crowdsourcing data we receive from people with mental health problems taking the survey.

People who have been diagnosed with certain mental illnesses share their symptoms and treatment experiences by taking the online survey. The user information is encrypted and, thus, when this data is ready to be analyzed, it is already anonymous. Using this anonymous dataset from the crowdsourcing, we create machine learning-based frameworks to pra diagnose mental health conditions (given the symptoms) and recommend treatments that work best (given the conditions).

Those who have been experiencing certain mental illness symptoms, but either never got the chance to get diagnosed by the professional or want to get a second opinion, in fact people’s opinion, can visit our platform to get pra diagnosis by entering their list of symptoms. Those who have been diagnosed by professionals or pra diagnosed by our platform can visit our platform to get recommendations on which treatments work best by entering their mental health conditions.

The machine learning models are continuously updated as more people contribute and take the survey. Theoretically, we expect to have better models as we receive more data.

Our long term goal is to create a space for community where mental health survivors, people suffering from mental health problems, people experience mental illness symptoms, mental health professionals, mental health advocates, mental health practitioners, mental health enthusiasts can connect and share their experiences.

We’re still at the early stages of crowdsourcing. We started the first phase of crowdsourcing early in June. If you share our vision and want to take part, you can spread the word or contact us at info@metamorphosis.id. Also, you can head over to our Instagram @metamorphosis.community for more insights.