badgermentalhealth

About

BadgerBreak is intended to be a cross-platform mobile application that is a free, self-guided Mental Health resource for UW-madison students.

• A simple tool to allow students who are apprehensive towards the idea of help to get a head start in understanding their mental and emotional health.
• Tap into an emotion rather than provide a disorder diagnosis.
• Help students more accurately pinpoint the root of their behaviours.
• The community board will help students feel supported in their journey.

Features

• Coping Cards - Cards that are saved onto the user's device for privacy purposes; Enable user to make notes of thoughts, helpful messages, emotions and save them so they could return to them when they need help dealing with a certain emotion.
• Community Board - A board for posting, liking and possibly sharing other posts created under an alias name.
• Assessment - Short quizzes (saved onto the user's device to protect private health information) to assess the emotional state of the user and understand their thought patterns. This will allow us to identify issues like self-esteem, abandonment, relationship, self-acceptance, dealing with grief etc.

To run the project:

1. Clone this repository and the backend repository (https://github.com/Ryan-Gillespie/bmhbackend)
2. Open a terminal in the frontend repository
3. run the command npm install
4. If you are a tester, checkout the test branch with git checkout origin/test
5. run the command expo start
6. Open another terminal in the backend repository
7. run the command npm install
8. run the command npm run start
9. wait for expo to spin up
10. open the app on a web branch or on your native device through the expo interface.

To run the tests:

1. Clone the frontend repository
2. cd into the directory in a terminal
3. run the command npm install
4. run the command npm install jest --global
5. to run the tests run jest