ABOUT GOODFEELIS

Feelenials has created a social outreach program, GoodFeelis, to address the Global Mental Health implications caused by the Coronavirus and help fight the crisis together!

 

EVERYONE CONTRIBUTES

Our social program aims to gather Emotional Data so that citizens, caregivers, psychologists, doctors, economists and governments can address the mental health aspects of the pandemic. People are worried about health, jobs, school, money, food and quarantine. GOODFEELIS is an app intended to be used by citizens, healthcare, companies, governments, etc in order to make better decisions for communities, especially now in these times of isolation, uncertainty and anxiety. Users anonymously record emotions, and then appear on a Global Emotions Map. Everyone can zoom into their city or town and see information by demographics. 

USER EXPERIENCE

When users record and share their emotions in the app, they benefit from tracking their mood, which is a technique in positive psychology and recommended by doctors to patients who want to improve their mental health. In addition, the application includes gamifications that allow the user to accumulate points and level up, making it a fun and educational tool.

GLOBAL REPORT

User emotions are registered anonymously because no personal information is requested and only the metadata (demographics such as gender, age, location, etc.) is collected for emotional mapping of the world in context and in real time. Users, companies, industries, governments and intergovernmental organizations can visualize how the world feels and how each demographic, city or country feels, allowing them to make smarter and more informed decisions related to each community.

HAPPIER AND UNITED WORLD

If we are aware of how people around the world feel, we can understand ourselves and others better.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

We are not at the mercy of coronavirus. The great advantage we have is that the decisions we all make – as governments, businesses, communities, families and individuals – can influence the trajectory of this epidemic.

REFERENCES

We are not at the mercy of #coronavirus. The great advantage we have is that the decisions we all make – as governments, businesses, communities, families and individuals – can influence the trajectory of this epidemic.

-Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Director-General of the World Health Organization)

“It’s really important to think about mental health as part of the public health response to COVID-19.”

-Aiysha Malik (Technical Officer at the World Health Organization’s Mental Health and Substance Use Department)

Measures include: (1) integration of key messages related to mental health and stigma in the training material of frontline workers from health and non-health sectors; the training of the national COVID-19 call centres; the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) guidelines to the public on self-isolation, including on social media; and the communication messages targeting the general public, health care workers, and others; (2) Development of a social media campaign on mental health targeting the general population, caregivers of children, persons in self-isolation, and workplaces to support employees with flexible work arrangements; (3) Self-care and support for health care staff and front-liners during this period; and (4) on-call, phone-based mental health support for persons in quarantine.

-Dr Rabih El Chammay (Head of Mental Health Programme, Ministry of Public Health, Lebanon)

Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/covid19-coronavirus-mental-health-expert-insights/